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Justice in the City
An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism
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Artikel-Nr:
9781618112965
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.05.2013
Seiten:
174
Autor:
Aryeh Cohen
Gewicht:
275 g
Format:
234x156x10 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Aryeh Cohen (PhD Brandeis University) is an associate professor of Rabbinic Literature at the American Jewish University. His previous book is Rereading Talmud: Gender, Law and the Poetics of Sugyot (Brown University, 1998).
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 form a constitutive part of the city. The second part of the book is a close analysis of homelessness, labor, and restorative justice from within the theory that was developed. This title will be useful for scholars and students in Jewish studies, especially rabbinic literature and Jewish thought, but also for those interested in contemporary urban issues.