TY - BOOK ID - 77918650 TI - Justice in the city PY - 2012 SN - 1618111116 9781618111111 1936235641 9781936235643 130615023X 9781306150231 9781936235643 PB - Boston : Academic Studies Press, DB - UniCat KW - Judaism and social problems. KW - Justice (Jewish theology) KW - Social justice KW - Righteousness (Jewish theology) KW - Religion and justice KW - Social problems and Judaism KW - Social problems KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism. KW - Rabbinical literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Babylonian Talmud. KW - Bible. KW - Emmanuel Levinas. KW - Jewish theology. KW - Rabbinic literature. KW - cities. KW - class. KW - community. KW - ethics. KW - faith traditions. KW - hermeneutics. KW - homelessness. KW - philosophy. KW - polemics. KW - politics. KW - poverty. KW - religion. KW - sacred texts. KW - social justice. KW - Rabbinical literature - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77918650 AB - Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, 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. These Others form a constitutive part of the city. The second part of the book is a close analysis of homelessness, labor, and restorative justice from within the theory that was developed. This title will be useful for scholars and students in Jewish studies, especially rabbinic literature and Jewish thought, but also for those interested in contemporary urban issues. ER -