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Academic Studies Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good. * Book cover like new, slight edge wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked spine like new. * No dust jacket issued with this book. * Proceeds benefit Friends of the Library. * ""Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged with care.""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 viewworkers, 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… Read More
