Ethics of In-Visibility

Born 1974; studied theology and philosophy in Tübingen, Jerusalem, Munich and Heidelberg; PhD and habilitation at the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zurich; since 2010 Professor of Systematic Theology with special responsibilities in Ethics and Philosophy and Religion, and since 2014 Director of the Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

• Claudia Welz: Introduction: Dialectics of In-Visibility in Religion, Art, and EthicsI. Ethics, Media, MonstrationArne Grøn: Ethics of In-Visibility - Daniel Dayan: Embattled Visibilities: Major Media and Visibility Entrepreneurs - Hannes Langbein: The Gaze and the Image: Some Reflections on the Phenomenology of the Image of God in the Face of Marina AbramovićII. Memory, Forgetting, and the Misuse of ImagesAlana M. Vincent: Imitation and Finitude: Towards a Jewish Theology of Making - Melissa Raphael: Antidotes to Captivation and Spell-Bound Forgetting: The Counter-Idolatrous Figure of the Human in Modern Jewish Theology and Art - Christina von Braun: The Symbol of the Cross: A Visual Symbol Become Flesh in Anti-SemitismIII. Religious Heritage in Humanism, Modernity, and PostmodernityIben Damgaard: 'Who will not wonder at this Chameleon'? Pico and Kierkegaard on Human Dignity and Imago Dei - Paul Mendes-Flohr: Jewish Intellectuals Confront Modernity: Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, and Leo Strauss - Elliot R. Wolfson: Givenness and the Disappearance of the Gift: Ethics and the Invisible in Marion's Christocentric PhenomenologyIV. Jewish Thought after the ShoahChristian Wiese: God's Passion for Humankind and Human Responsibility for the Divine: Anthropology and Ethics in Hans Jonas's and Abraham J. Heschel's Post-Holocaust Interpretation of Imago Dei - N. Verbin: Protest and Resentment as Theological Responses to the Shoah - Claudia Welz: Imago Dei and Crimes against Humanity: Jewish Perspectives on an Ethics of In-Visibility