Philosophical Witnessing [electronic resource] : The Holocaust as Presence / Berel Lang.
Material type: TextSeries: Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered) | Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2009. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xv, 234 p. )Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781584658269
- 1584658266
- 940.53/1801 22
- D804.3 .L3573 2009
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.
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