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

Argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, 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.

• | By (Author): Aryeh Cohen (Author)
• | Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• | Publication Date: May 16, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1618112961
• | ISBN-13: 9781618112965