Justice in the City

Aryeh Cohen

Academic Studies Press, 2012

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Argues, based on the Rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilising 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.

ISBN-13
9781936235643
ISBN-10
1936235641
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2012
Publication date
2012-01-26
Pages
160
Dimensions
234x155x