"New ethics, which demands the overcoming of the subjectivity of the agent and denies the subjectivity of 'the Other', produces in this 'Other' the inflexible abstraction it sought to indict. Reason in modernity cannot be said to have broken the promise of universality - unless we have not kept it; for it is only we who can keep such a promise by working our abstract potentiality into the always difficult but enriched actuality of our relation to others and to ourselves. Whether disturbing or joyful, reason is full of surprises."
Gillian Rose, "Introduction", Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays (New York: Verso Books, 2017), 9.
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