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Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust
Essays in Honor of Berel Lang
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2013
Summary
The American-Jewish philosopher Berel Lang has left an indelible impression on an unusually broad range of fields that few scholars can rival. From his earliest innovations in philosophy and meta-philosophy, to his ground-breaking work on representation, historical writing, and art after Auschwitz, he has contributed original and penetrating insights to the philosophical, literary, and historical debates on ethics, art, and the representation of the Nazi Genocide.
In honor of Berel Lang’s five decades of scholarly and philosophical contributions, the editors of Ethics, Art and Representations of the Holocaust invited seventeen eminent scholars from around the world to discuss Lang’s impact on their own research and to reflect on how the Nazi genocide continues to resonate in contemporary debates about antisemitism, commemoration and poetic representations. Resisting what Alvin Rosenfeld warned as “the end of the Holocaust”, the essays in this collection signal the Holocaust as an event without closure, of enduring resonance to new generations of scholars of genocide, Jewish studies, and philosophy.
Readers will find original and provocative essays on topics as diverse as Nietzsche’s reputed Nazi leanings, Jewish anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, wartime rescue in Poland, philosophical responses to the Holocaust, hidden diaries in the Kovno Ghetto, and analyses of reactions to trauma in classic literary works by Bernhard Schlink, Sylvia Plath, and Derek Walcott.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8195-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8194-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
305
Product type
Edited Book
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As It Was (or at least, As It Might Have Been) No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Schlink’s Der Vorleser No access
Chapter Two: Body Double No access
Chapter Three: “Ethik und Aesthetik sind Eins” No access
Chapter Four: Responding to the Holocaust No access
Chapter Five: Philosophical Fancies No access
Chapter Six: On a ‘Nietzschean’ Dispute between Ahad Ha’am and Berdichevski No access
Chapter Seven: Each of Us a Nation No access
Chapter Eight: Anti-Apartheid Testimony No access
Chapter Nine: Speaking a Word for Nature No access
Chapter Ten: Nietzsche Half a Nazi? A Response to Crane Brinton No access
Chapter Eleven: Utopia Revisited, and Discarded No access
Chapter Twelve: Memory, Conscience, and the Moral Weight of Holocaust Representation No access
Chapter Thirteen: Vacating the Homogeneity of the Socio-Political No access
Chapter Fourteen: Daily Life of Polish Women, Dedicated Rescuers of Jews during and after the Second World War No access
Chapter Fifteen: Through the Lens of a Contemporary Historian No access
Chapter Sixteen: The Philosopher’s Holocaust No access
Chapter Seventeen: The Representation of Death in Exhibitions No access
Bibliography of Berel Lang’s Writings No access Pages 283 - 292
