Philosophical witnessing
Subtitle: the Holocaust as presence
By: [Berel Lang].
Series: The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
Publisher: Brandeis University Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781584657415
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence; Good and evil; Philosophy, Jewish
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophical witnessing:; title: and only I have survived to tell you; title: Truth at risk and the Holocaust's response; title: Evil and understanding: a Holocaust dilemma; title: Jaspers' Die Schuldfrage : a presence early and late; title: Holocaust-representation in the genre of silence; title: Representation and misrepresentation: on or about the Holocaust; title: Applied ethics, post-Holocaust; title: The Jewish declaration of war against the Nazis; title: From the Holocaust to group rights: minorities in a majority world; title: Metaphysical racism (or: biological warfare by other means); title: Hyphenated-Jews and the anxiety of identity; title: Reconciliation: not forgiveness, not revenge, perhaps not even justice; title: Afterword: wound and scar.