ISBN:
1584657413
,
9781584657415
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 234 S.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2009
Series Statement:
The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
DDC:
940.53/1801
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Moral and ethical aspects
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Good and evil
;
Jewish philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Moral and ethical aspects
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Influence
;
Good and evil
;
Philosophy, Jewish
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Geschichtsphilosophie
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Ethik
Abstract:
Philosophical witnessing: "-- and only I have survived to tell you" -- Truth at risk and the Holocaust's response -- Evil and understanding: a Holocaust dilemma -- Jaspers' Die Schuldfrage: a presence early and late -- Holocaust-representation in the genre of silence -- Representation and misrepresentation: on or about the Holocaust -- Applied ethics, post-Holocaust -- The Jewish declaration of war against the Nazis -- From the Holocaust to group rights: minorities in a majority world -- Metaphysical racism (or: biological warfare by other means) -- Hyphenated-Jews and the anxiety of identity -- Reconciliation: not revenge, not forgiveness, perhaps not even justice -- Afterword: wound and scar
Description / Table of Contents:
Philosophical witnessing: "-- and only I have survived to tell you" -- Truth at risk and the Holocaust's response -- Evil and understanding: a Holocaust dilemma -- Jaspers' Die Schuldfrage: a presence early and late -- Holocaust-representation in the genre of silence -- Representation and misrepresentation: on or about the Holocaust -- Applied ethics, post-Holocaust -- The Jewish declaration of war against the Nazis -- From the Holocaust to group rights: minorities in a majority world -- Metaphysical racism (or: biological warfare by other means) -- Hyphenated-Jews and the anxiety of identity -- Reconciliation: not revenge, not forgiveness, perhaps not even justice -- Afterword: wound and scar.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-229) and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29542
