Ethics for the Coming Storm
Climate Change and Jewish Thought
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 June 2024
- ISBN 9780197661352
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 160x226x20 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 546
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Short description:
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 head on. 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.
MoreLong description:
How can we come to understand our existence on this earth, surrounded by 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 is 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 head on. 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 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.
Zoloth is right to note that religious communities' narratives and ethical traditions are critical to weathering the storm and, simultaneously, the locus of most of what is worth salvaging.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Lightning from a Distant Storm
Chapter 1. The Coming Storm: An Introduction to our Situation
Chapter 2. The Promises of Exile: Diaspora as Ontology
Chapter 3. Making a Place: Lisbon and the Narrative of Disaster
Chapter 4. Risky Hospitality: Ordinal Ethics and the Duties of Abundance
Chapter 5. At the Last Well on Earth: Climate Change as a Feminist Issue
Chapter 6. Strangers on the Train: Moral Luck and Problem of Responsibility
Chapter 7. Bad Guys: Amalek and the Production of Doubt
Chapter 8. You Must Interrupt Your Life
Chapter 9. Conclusion
