Open Wounds by David Patterson HARDBACK 9780295986456

Open WoundsThe Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of the Holocaust\nAuthor(s): David Patterson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295986456, 978-0295986456\nSynopsis\nIn this book, David Patterson sets out to describe why Jews must live -- but especially think -- in a way that is distinctly Jewish.\n\nFor Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is to avoid thinking in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were not anti- Semitic because they were racists; they were racists because they were anti-Semitic, and their anti-Semitism was furthered by a Western ontological tradition that made God irrelevant by placing the thinking ego at the center of being.\n\nIf the Jewish people, in their particularity, are \""chosen\"" to attest to the universal \""chosenness\"" of every human being, then each hum.