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Genocide in Jewish thought / David Patterson, University of Texas at Dallas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781139232180
  • 1139232185
  • 9781139233729
  • 1139233726
  • 9780511820830
  • 0511820836
  • 9781107648210
  • 1107648211
  • 1107228735
  • 9781107228733
  • 1139234439
  • 9781139234436
  • 1280877804
  • 9781280877803
  • 9786613719119
  • 6613719110
  • 1139232940
  • 9781139232944
  • 1139230735
  • 9781139230735
  • 1139229273
  • 9781139229272
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Genocide in Jewish thought.DDC classification:
  • 296.3 23
LOC classification:
  • B5802.G46 P38 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • REL040000
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Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)435289

"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"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.

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.

Print version record.

English.