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Robert Zaretsky illustrated one of this thinker’s concepts by imagining a panhandler on I-45, which Toril Moi critiqued as “[this thinker] of the Suburbs.” After a classmate told this thinker that philosophy should provide meaning, not happiness, this thinker responded “It is easy to see you have never gone hungry.” (15[3])This thinker argued that “what is sacred in a human being is the impersonal in him” in the essay “Human Personality,” which emphasizes moral “attention.” This thinker claimed God “withdrew in order that we might come into being,” so we must likewise renounce our autonomy in an act of (*) decreation, (10[1])in a posthumously published book. She claimed that rights are subordinate to obligations (10[1])and create modern déracinement in The Need (10[1])for Roots. For 10 points, name this Jewish-born Christian author of Gravity and Grace who died from over-fasting in World War II. ■END■

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