Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark TimeThe first book to focus comprehensively on the profound issues and philosophical significance of the Holocaust |
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Contents
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WHAT PHILOSOPHY CAN AND CANNOT SAY ABOUT EVIL | 91 |
LIBERALISM AND THE HOLOCAUST An Essay on Trust and the BlackJewish Relationship | 105 |
THE DILEMMA OF CHOICE IN THE DEATHCAMPS | 118 |
ON THE IDEA OF MORAL PATHOLOGY | 128 |
THE RIGHT WAY TO ACT Indicting the Victims | 149 |
THE CONCEPT OF GOD AFTER AUSCHWITZ A Jewish Voice | 292 |
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAN AFTER AUSCHWITZ | 306 |
CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND THE END OF THE LIFEWORLD | 327 |
LANGUAGE AND GENOCIDE | 341 |
Challenges to the Understanding | 363 |
SOCIAL SCIENCE TECHNIQUES AND THE STUDY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS | 365 |
THE CRISIS IN KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING THE HOLOCAUST | 379 |
THE POLITICS OF SYMBOLIC EVASION Germany and the Aftermath of the Holocaust | 396 |
ON LOSING TRUST IN THE WORLD | 163 |
ETHICS EVIL AND THE FINAL SOLUTION | 181 |
Echoes from the Death Camps | 199 |
THE HOLOCAUST AS A TEST OF PHILOSOPHY | 201 |
THE HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN PROGRESS | 223 |
THE HOLOCAUST MORAL THEORY AND IMMORAL ACTS | 245 |
TECHNOLOGY AND GENOCIDE Technology as a Form of Life | 262 |
THE ABUSE OF HOLOCAUST STUDIES Mercy Killing and the Slippery Slope | 412 |
THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF THE HOLOCAUST Tightening up Some Loose Usage | 421 |
STUDYING THE HOLOCAUSTS IMPACT TODAY Some Dilemmas of Language and Method | 432 |
THE CONTRIBUTORS | 443 |
INDEX | 447 |
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Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time Alan Rosenberg No preview available - 1990 |
Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time Alan Rosenberg,Gerald Eugene Myers No preview available - 1988 |
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Page 95 - ... all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.
Page 335 - They crowd my memory with their faceless presences, and if I could enclose all the evil of our time in one image, I would choose this image which is familiar to me: an emaciated man, with head dropped and shoulders curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen.
Page 273 - All the men must be fed, sheltered and treated in such a way as to exploit them to the highest possible extent at the lowest conceivable degree of expenditure...
Page 225 - The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own gravediggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
Page 248 - And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.
Page 120 - ... abnormal response and another, both imposed by a situation that was in no way of the victim's own choosing.
Page 215 - After witnessing hundreds of ordinary people submit to the authority in our own experiments, I must conclude that Arendt's conception of the banality of evil comes closer to the truth than one might dare imagine.
Page 328 - The world is pregiven to us, the waking, always somehow practically interested subjects, not occasionally but always and necessarily as the universal field of all actual and possible praxis, as horizon. To live is always to live-in-certainty-of-the-world.
Page 95 - ... a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it. These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, too ; cutting the unborn child from the mother's womb, and tossing babies up in the air and catching them on the points of their bayonets before their mother's eyes. Doing it before the mother's eyes was what gave zest to the amusement.
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| Title | Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time Book collections on Project MUSE |
| Author | Alan Rosenberg |
| Editor | Alan Rosenberg |
| Publisher | Temple University Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1439901619, 9781439901618 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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