Informationen zum Autor David Patterson holds the Bornblum Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies and is director of the Bornblum Judaic Studies Program at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary , winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award. Klappentext For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is the refusal to think in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were anti-Semitic for the same reason that Western ontological thought is anti-Semitic: because modern philosophy made God irrelevant by placing the thinking ego at the center of being. Zusammenfassung Describes why Jews must live - but especially think - in a way that is distinctly Jewish. This book aims to make possible a religious response to the Holocaust. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Open Wounds of Jewish Thought 2. The Bankruptcy of Modern and Postmodern Thought 3. Ethical Monotheism and Jewish Thought 4. The Holocaust and the Holy Tongue 5. The Sifrei Kodesh and the Holocaust 6. The Muselmann and the Matter of the Human Being 7. Jewish Thought and a Post-Holocaust Tikkun Haolam 8. Mystical Dimensions of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought 9. Though the Messiah May Tarry 10. Conclusion: No Closure Notes Bibliography Index

Autorentext

David Patterson holds the Bornblum Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies and is director of the Bornblum Judaic Studies Program at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary, winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award.

Klappentext

For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is the refusal to think in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were anti-Semitic for the same reason that Western ontological thought is anti-Semitic: because modern philosophy made God irrelevant by placing the thinking ego at the center of being.

Zusammenfassung
Describes why Jews must live - but especially think - in a way that is distinctly Jewish. This book aims to make possible a religious response to the Holocaust.

Inhalt

Preface

Acknowledgments