Ethics for the coming storm : climate change and Jewish thought /
"How can we come to understand our existence on this earth, surrounded by the stark beauty of air and light and water, while living in a place we deliberately and carelessly abuse, where resources are becoming scarce, and where the well-being and basic health of our neighbors are threatened? In...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY ;
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "How can we come to understand our existence on this earth, surrounded by the stark beauty of air and light and water, while living in a place we deliberately and carelessly abuse, where resources are becoming scarce, and where the well-being and basic health of our neighbors are threatened? In Ethics for the Coming Storm, Laurie Zoloth argues that our debates about environmental issues have largely been driven by the language of economics and political power, and have become both deeply divisive and symbolic, turning our differing truth claims and moral appeals into signs of identity. This discourse has utterly failed to change the human behavior or political and economic structures necessary to face global warming serious and directly. So Zoloth turns to another language, found in the texts and traditions of Jewish thought—the language of Scripture, the Talmud, and philosophy of Judaism—which, she contends, offers a different kind of argument for such a change. In fact, Zoloth claims, the traditions, histories, and texts of Jewish thought address precisely the sort of existential crisis that we now face, and thus deepen and enrich our public discourse about what to do and who to be. This book uses a careful attention to Scriptural, rabbinic, and philosophical sources in Jewish thought to provide a novel framework through which we can reassess the choices we make that affect our climate, our environment, and our social structures"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197661376 0197661378 9780197661383 0197661386 9780197661369 019766136X |