Genocide in Jewish thought / / David Patterson, University of Texas at Dallas [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Patterson David <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 296.3
• Soggetto topico: Genocide - Philosophy; Thought and thinking - Philosophy; Jewish philosophy; Humanity - Philosophy; Jewish ethics - Philosophy; Philosophy and religion; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Hebrew language - Roots
• Classificazione: REL040000
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: a name, not an essence -- 1. Why Jewish thought, and what makes it Jewish? -- 2. Deadly philosophical abstraction -- 3. The stranger in your midst -- 4. Nefesh: the soul as flesh and blood -- 5. The environmentalist contribution to genocide -- 6. Torture -- 7. Hunger and homelessness -- 8. Philosophy, religion, and genocide -- A concluding reflection on body and soul.
• Sommario/riassunto: Among the topics explored in this book are ways of viewing the soul, the relation between body and soul, environmentalist thought, the phenomenon of torture, and the philosophical and theological warrants for genocide. Presenting an analysis of abstract modes of thought that have contributed to genocide, the book argues that a Jewish model of concrete thinking may inform our understanding of the abstractions that can lead to genocide. Its aim is to draw upon distinctively Jewish categories of thought to demonstrate how the conceptual defacing of the other human being serves to promote the murder of peoples, and to suggest a way of thinking that might help prevent genocide.
• Titolo autorizzato: Genocide in Jewish thought
• ISBN: 1-107-22873-5; 1-139-23443-9; 1-280-87780-4; 9786613719119; 1-139-23294-0; 1-139-23073-5; 1-139-23372-6; 1-139-22927-3; 1-139-23218-5; 0-511-82083-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790136903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II