Title: Conscience and memory : meditations in a museum of the Holocaust /
Authors: Kaplan, Harold, 1916-2015.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Moral and ethical aspects
Abstract: Prompted by the suicides of Jean Amery and Primo Levi, Harold Kaplan sought to ask what the Holocaust can be said to affirm even in the face of its overwhelming negation of meaning. "I wrote this book," he explains, "to translate the Holocaust out of the moral and intellectual shock which contemplates the alienation of humanity from itself. I wished to understand the 'crime against humanity' as a viable category of the moral reason. And l wished to respond to the written testimony of Holocaust victims and survivors as if the issue of their survival were present to us today."
Contents: 1. A Museum for Conscience and Memory -- 2. Crimes against Humanity -- 3. Three Myths of Modernity: The God in History -- 4. Three Myths of Modernity: The Metapolitics of Nature -- 5. Three Myths of Modernity: The Cult of Power -- 6. Victims: The Metaphysical Jew -- 7. Redemption and the Life of Meaning -- 8. Existential Democracy and Human Rights.