Richard A. Cohen (1)Critiques

This is an extremely lucid and persuasive account of the way in which morality might be reconfigured after the collapse of theodicy as a consequence of the Holocaust: there is more to Levinasian philosophy than that, of course; and Richard Cohen's analysis of Levinas is more nuanced than that - but it is as an exploration of the way in which an understanding of our moral character might develop in a world which has seen too much evil, but might do so heedful of the best of the heritage of faith, that this book excels.