RT Book
T1 Genocide in Jewish thought
A1 Patterson, David
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/883467291
AB 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.
AB 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
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN B5802.G46
SN 9780511820830
K1 Genocide : Philosophy.
K1 Thought and thinking : Philosophy.
K1 Humanity : Philosophy.
K1 Jewish ethics : Philosophy.
K1 Hebrew language : Roots.
K1 Jewish Philosophy
K1 Philosophy and religion
K1 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
K1 Humanity : Philosophy
K1 Jewish ethics : Philosophy
K1 Hebrew language : Roots
K1 Thought and thinking : Philosophy
K1 Genocide : Philosophy
K1 Genocide ; Philosophy
K1 Thought and thinking ; Philosophy
K1 Humanity ; Philosophy
K1 Jewish ethics ; Philosophy
K1 Hebrew language ; Roots
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511820830