Ethics of in-visibility
Subtitle: Imago Dei, memory, and human dignity in Jewish and Christian thought
By: edited by Claudia Welz
Series: Religion in philosophy and theology -- 77; Religion in philosophy and theology -- 77.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9783161538100
Subjects: Collective memory; Dignity; Image (Theology); Image of God; Religion and ethics; Congresses; Religious thought
Description: The hyphenated phrase 'in-visibility' indicates that the visible and the invisible are inseparable and yet in tension with each other. If originating from acts of (in)visibilization, both the visible and the invisible are ethically imbued. Whether we see or overlook each other, respect or dismiss another's dignity, remember or forget a history of crimes against humanity, our (over)sight has an impact on our interaction. What, then, is implied in seeing the human being as created in the image of an invisible God, as imago Dei? Which (re)sources in Judaism and Christianity can counter idolatry in the sense of cognitive captivity and experiences of abandonment after the Shoah? In addressing such questions, this book outlines an ethics of in-visibility in an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy and theology, cultural history, art and media theory, sociology, literary and gender studies. Contributors: Christina von Braun, Iben Damgaard, Daniel Dayan, Arne Grøn, Hannes Langbein, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Melissa Raphael, N. Verbin, Alana M. Vincent, Claudia Welz, Christian Wiese, Elliot R. Wolfson.
Notes: "The body of this book originates from the conference 'Ethics of In-Visibility ... which took place at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, on October 25-26, 2011.'"

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: I. Ethics, media, monstration; title: II. Memory, forgetting, and the misuse of images; title: III. Religious heritage in humanism, modernity, and postmodernity; title: IV. Jewish thought after the Shoah.