Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust: Making Ethics "First Philosophy" in Levinas, Wiesel and Rubenstein

By Ingrid Anderson

Emmanuel Levinas, Elie Wiesel and Richard Rubenstein respond to this problem by insisting that ethics must be Western thought's first concern. Unlike previous thinkers, they locate humanity's source of universal ethical obligation in the temporal world of experience, where human suffering, rather than metaphysics, provides the ground for ethical

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367876345
• ISBN13: 9780367876340
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"