Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism

by Aryeh Cohen

Book Overview

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That is, in a community thus conceived, the privilege of citizenship is the assumption of the obligations of the city towards Others who are not always in view-workers, the poor, the homeless. These Others...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618112961
• ISBN13: 9781618112965
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"