Philosophical Witnessing
Lang, Berel.
Philosophical Witnessing The Holocaust as Presence / [electronic resource] : Berel Lang. - Waltham, Mass. : Hanover [N.H.] : Brandeis University Press ; University Press of New England, c2009. - 1 online resource (xv, 234 p. ) - The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series . - Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered) Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9781584658269 1584658266
Jewish philosophy.
Good and evil.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
D804.3 / .L3573 2009
940.53/1801
Philosophical Witnessing The Holocaust as Presence / [electronic resource] : Berel Lang. - Waltham, Mass. : Hanover [N.H.] : Brandeis University Press ; University Press of New England, c2009. - 1 online resource (xv, 234 p. ) - The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series . - Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered) Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9781584658269 1584658266
Jewish philosophy.
Good and evil.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
D804.3 / .L3573 2009
940.53/1801