The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust

Salvaging the Fragments
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-349-37863-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 183 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a world still besieged by genocide and atrocity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geddes, J.

Roth, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: ENGAGING THE DOUBLE BINDS 'Double Binds: Ethics after Auschwitz'; J.K.Roth 'Morality after Auschwitz?: Haas, Nietzsche, and the Possibilities for Revaluation'; B.Benedix 'Cutting the Roots of the Holocaust: Resisting the Enlightenment's Universalizing Impulse'; H.Kassim 'The Tikkun of Philosophy and the Idea of Humanity'; E.Galbraith PART II: SURVEYING THE FRAGMENTS 'Survival of the Closest: Gender and Agency in Holocaust Resistance'; T.K.Parker & M.Goldenberg 'The Role of Moral Examples in Teaching Ethics after the Holocaust: Reconsidering the Rescue of the Danish Jews'; H.Trautner-Kromann 'Dignity and Despair: The Double Bind of Jean Améry's Odyssey'; M.Stern PART III: SALVAGING THE ETHICAL 'Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust'; J.L.Geddes 'Making Ethical Sense of Useless Suffering with Levinas'; J.Simon 'Reconstituting Political Philosophy After the Holocaust: Towards the Prevention of Genocide'; M.Gerber

Über Autor(innen)

JENNIFER L. GEDDES is Research Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, USA. 
 
JOHN K. ROTH is Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, USA. 
 
JULES SIMON is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.