Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek

by Zahi Zalloua

Book Overview

From Sartre to Levinas, continental philosophers have looked to the example of the Jew as the paradigmatic object of and model for ethical inquiry. Levinas, for example, powerfully dedicates his 1974 book Otherwise than Being to the victims of the Holocaust, and turns attention to the state of philosophy after Auschwitz. Such an ethics radically challenges prior notions of autonomy and comprehension-two key ideas for traditional ethical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350084565
• ISBN13: 9781350084568
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"