Spirit in Ashes by Edith Wyschogrod
Contemporary phenomena of mass death--such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz--have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the various manifestations of man-made mass death form a single structure, a death-event, which radically alters our understanding of language, time, and self. She contends that the death event has its own logic and driving force that she traces to pre-Socratic philosophy and to certain mythological motifs that recur in Western thought.Spirit in Ashes is one book in contemporary philosophy that should be read aloud and taken to heart by any professional or intellectual who purports to have a conscience.--Carl Rasche, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
A masterful blend of scholarship, originality, and serious passion.--Robert C. Neville, Commonweal
An original, insightful, and challenging work.--Robert Burch, Canadian Philosophical Reviews
Wyschogrod, Edith: - Edith Wyschogrod is J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought emerita at Rice University. The most recent of her books are An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others; Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy; and a second edition of Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics (Fordham).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300033229 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300033222 |
| Title | Spirit in Ashes |
| Author | Edith Wyschogrod |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 1985-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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