Open Wounds
Subtitle: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of Auschwitz (Pastora Goldner Series in Post-Holocaust Studies)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: December 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780295986456
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Jewish studies; Religion; Religion - Judaism; Europe; Good & Evil; Holocaust; Judaism - Theology; 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Influence; Judaism; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: "In this book, David Patterson sets out to describe why Jews must live - but especially think - in a way that is distinctly Jewish. For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is to avoid thinking in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were not anti-Semitic because they were racists; they were racists because they were anti-Semitic, and their anti-Semitism was furthered by a Western ontological tradition that made God irrelevant by placing the thinking ego at the center of being."--BOOK JACKET.