Book Summary
For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is the refusal to think in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were anti-Semitic for the same reason that Western ontological thought is anti-Semitic: because modern philosophy made God irrelevant by placing the thinking ego at the center of being.
Book Details
| Book Name | Open Wounds: The Crisis Of Jewish Thought In The Aftermath Of The Holocaust |
| Author | David Patterson |
| Publisher | University Of Washington Press (Dec 2006) |
| ISBN | 9780295986456 |
| Pages | 338 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1597 |
