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Philosophical witnessing : the Holocaust as presence /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lang, Berel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waltham, Mass. : Hanover [N.H.] : Brandeis University Press ; University Press of New England, ©2009.
Colección:Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.