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The ethics of mourning : grief and responsibility in elegiac literature /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Autor principal:	Spargo, R. Clifton
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Temas:	Death in literature. Grief in literature. Ethics in literature. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. American literature > History and criticism. Elegiac poetry, English > History and criticism. Elegiac poetry, American > History and criticism. Judaism and literature > English-speaking countries. Mourning customs in literature. English literature > History and criticism. Mort dans la littérature. Chagrin dans la littérature. Morale dans la littérature. Perte (Psychologie) dans la littérature. Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature. Poésie élégiaque anglaise > Histoire et critique. Judaïsme et littérature > Anglophonie. Deuil > Coutumes, dans la littérature. Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique. Poésie élégiaque américaine > Histoire et critique. American literature Death in literature Elegiac poetry, American Elegiac poetry, English English literature Ethics in literature Grief in literature Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature Judaism and literature Loss (Psychology) in literature Mourning customs in literature English-speaking countries "Multi-User" Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Re-Theorizing Ethics
The Language of the Other
Ethics as Critique
Post-1945 Memory
1 Ethics as Unquieted Memory
Facing Death
Mourning the Other Who Dies
To Whom Do Our Funerary Emotions Refer?
Reading Grief's Excess in the Phaedo
The Death of Every Other
The Universal Relevance of the Unjust Death
The Holocaustâ€?Not Just Anybody's Injustice
2 The Unpleasure of Conscience
Is Sorry Really the Hardest Word?
Unpleasure, Revisited
The Bad Conscience in HistoryThe Bad Conscience and the Holocaust
Coda
3 Where There Are No Victorious Victims
Accountability in the Name of the Victim
Not Just Any Victim
Levinas and the Question of Victim-Subjectivity
Just Who Substitutes for Another?
Victim of Circumstances
Questionably Useful Suffering
4 Of the Others Who Are Stranger than Neighbors
The Stranger, Metaphorically Speaking
The Memory of the Stranger
Somebody's Knocking at the Door . . .
Lest We Forgetâ€?the Neighbor
The Community of Neighborsâ€?Is It a Good Thing?How Well Do I Know My Neighbor? The Exigency of Israel and the Holocaust
Afterword. Ethics versus History: Is There Still an Ought in Our Remembrance?
The Memory of Injustice
Nobody Has to Remember
Why Should I Care?
Notes
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