Philosophical witnessing: the Holocaust as presence
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Waltham, Mass. Brandeis University Press c2009
Schriftenreihe:Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-229) and index
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
Fascinating philosophical inquiry into post-Holocaust representations of the event in political theory, ethics, and aesthetics, and an assessment of the limitations and promise of philosophical 'witnessing' in relation to those issues
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 234 p.)
ISBN:1584658266
9781584658269

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