Beyond the Walls: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Edith Stein on the Significance of Empathy for Jewish-Christian Dialogue

by Joseph Redfield Palmisano

Joseph Palmisano offers an in-depth examination of the significance of empathy for Jewish-Christian understanding. Drawing on the writings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) and Edith Stein (1891-1942), he develops a phenomenological category of empathy defined as a way of "re-membering" oneself with the religious other.

Palmisano follows Heschel's and Stein's philosophical theory and praxis through the unprecedented horrors of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019992502X
• ISBN13: 9780199925025
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"