Open Wounds: The Crisis Of Jewish Thought In The Aftermath Of Auschwitz( Series - Pastora Goldner Series In Post-holocaust Studies )

For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is the refusal to think in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were anti-Semitic for the same reason that Western ontological thought is anti-Semitic: because modern philosophy made God irrelevant by placing the thinking ego at the center of being.