Genocide in Jewish Thought, David Patterson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), xii + 252 pp., hardcover 95.00, paperback (print on demand) 24.99
Over the last twenty-five years, David Patterson has examined the Holocaust less as a theological crisis in Jewish (and/or Christian) theodicy than as an assault against the Holy Name and its exemplary bearers, the Jews. His Genocide in Jewish Thought conjoins that metaphysical interpretation of the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 350-353 |
| Review of: | Genocide in Jewish thought (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013) (Geller, Jay)
Genocide in Jewish thought (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012) (Geller, Jay) Genocide in Jewish thought (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2012) (Geller, Jay) |
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| Summary: | Over the last twenty-five years, David Patterson has examined the Holocaust less as a theological crisis in Jewish (and/or Christian) theodicy than as an assault against the Holy Name and its exemplary bearers, the Jews. His Genocide in Jewish Thought conjoins that metaphysical interpretation of the Holocaust, his recent engagement with the history of antisemitism, and a seemingly selective reading of Western philosophy to divine the source of the genocidal impulse. Patterson locates that source in abstract thought—both theological and philosophical—that “locks us into the isolation of an illusory ego and that blinds us to the face of our fellow human being” (p. 1) or “refuse[s] a place for the stranger” (p. 8). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu027 |