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Ethics after the Holocaust : perspectives, critiques, and responses / John K. Roth, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Paragon House, 1999Description: xvi, 363 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1557787719
  • 9781557787712
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.5318 21
LOC classification:
  • D804.3 .E89 1999
Contents:
Introduction: Ethics after Auschwitz -- Ch. 1. Emmanuel Levinas and the Primacy of Ethics in Post-Holocaust Philosophy -- Ch. 2. Science and the Determination of the Good -- Ch. 3. The Gray Zone or the Banality of Evil -- Ch. 4. Nazis, Philosophers, and the Response to the Scandal of Heidegger -- Ch. 5. The Kafkaesque World of the Holocaust: Paradigmatic Shifts in the Ethical Interpretation of the Nazi Genocide -- Ch. 6. Returning Home: Reflections on Post-Holocaust Ethics -- Postscript: Post-Holocaust Ethics and the Future -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The contributors to this book investigate Morality's failures during the Holocaust and raise questions about ethics afterwards.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-347) and index.

Introduction: Ethics after Auschwitz -- Ch. 1. Emmanuel Levinas and the Primacy of Ethics in Post-Holocaust Philosophy -- Ch. 2. Science and the Determination of the Good -- Ch. 3. The Gray Zone or the Banality of Evil -- Ch. 4. Nazis, Philosophers, and the Response to the Scandal of Heidegger -- Ch. 5. The Kafkaesque World of the Holocaust: Paradigmatic Shifts in the Ethical Interpretation of the Nazi Genocide -- Ch. 6. Returning Home: Reflections on Post-Holocaust Ethics -- Postscript: Post-Holocaust Ethics and the Future -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

The contributors to this book investigate Morality's failures during the Holocaust and raise questions about ethics afterwards.

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