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Ronald C. Arnett
An Immemorial Obligation: Countering the Eclipse of the Other
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Amos Kiewe (2011) provides a significant intellectual and practical service to the field of communication and to those seeking to understand evil that commences with the eclipse of the Other. His rhetorical analysis of anti-Semitism continues to unmask the marginalization and rejection of the different. The tone and purpose of his work originates in the title of Kiewe’s (2011) book, Confronting Anti-Semitism: Seeking an End to Hateful Rhetoric. This essay engages his didactic insights in three basic ways. First, I highlight particular parts of Kiewe’s book, engaging his project chapter by chapter. Second, while exploring this perspective, I offer comments that conclude each chapter description. Finally, I offer a response from the standpoint of three Jewish scholars central to my own work, Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), Martin Buber (1878– 1965), and Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995). I underscore macro arguments from each of these three scholars in order to explicate my response to Kiewe’s discernments.
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