Overview

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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Author:   Simone Gigliotti ,  Jacob Golomb ,  Caroline Steinberg Gould
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780739181959

ISBN 10:   0739181955
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   22 November 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Table of contents Foreword: As It Was (or at least, As It Might Have Been), by Berel Lang Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Art in Theory and Practice 1. Morality and Narrative Unreliability: The Danger of Schlink's Der Vorleser, by Caroline S. Gould 2. Body Double: Portraits, Memory and the Face of Evil, by Shelley Hornstein 3. “Ethik und Aesthetik sind Eins”: Poetic Philosophy on Auschwitz, by Sarah Liu 4. Responding to the Holocaust: Fackenheim, Levinas, Cavell, by Michael Morgan 5. Philosophical Fancies: Four Fantastic Fables, by Howard Needler Part II: The Particular and the Universal: A Narrow Bridge 6. ""On a 'Nietzschean' Dispute between Ahad Ha'am and Berdichevski, by Jacob Golomb 7. Each of Us a Nation: Rethinking Nationalisms, by Bert Nepaulsingh 8. Anti-apartheid exile: South African Jewish activists in Britain, 1948-1989, by Susan Dabney Pennybacker 9. Speaking a Word for Nature: Thoreau’s Philosophical Saunter, by Gary Shapiro 10. Nietzsche, half a Nazi? A Response to Crane Brinton, by Weaver Santaniello 11. Utopia Revisited, and Discarded: Post-Metaphoric Reflections on Israel, by Steven J. Zipperstein Part III: The Holocaust in History and Representation 12. Memory, Conscience, and the Moral Weight of Holocaust Representation, by Victoria Aarons 13. Vacating the homogeneity of the Socio-political: Sylvia Plath and the disruption of ‘confessional poetry’, by Michael Mack    14. Daily Life of Polish Women, Dedicated Rescuers of Jews During and After the Second World War, by Joanna Beata Michlic 15. Through the Lens of a Contemporary Historian: The History of the Jewish Police in Kovno Ghetto Written in the Ghetto (1943), by Dalia Ofer 16. The Philosopher’s Holocaust, by Elhanan Yakira 17. The representation of death in exhibitions: the case of the State Museum at Majdanek, by Anna Ziebinska-Witek Appendix I: Berel Lang's Comprehensive Bibliography Index About the Contributors"

Reviews

This remarkable collection of fourteen essays, generated by ‘the Nazi genocide of the Jews,’ exceeds expectations at nearly every turn for both its deeply personal voice and its analytic acumen. Taken as a whole, Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust is global in scope, historically rich and philosophically diverse. It rarely abandons its Jewish perspective on a range of nearly intractable issues and in that respect alone, it is a fitting tribute to Berel Lang. -- David Goldblatt, Denison University

This remarkable collection of fourteen essays, generated by 'the Nazi genocide of the Jews,' exceeds expectations at nearly every turn for both its deeply personal voice and its analytic acumen. Taken as a whole, Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust is global in scope, historically rich and philosophically diverse. It rarely abandons its Jewish perspective on a range of nearly intractable issues and in that respect alone, it is a fitting tribute to Berel Lang. -- David Goldblatt, Denison University

Author Information

Simone Gigliotti is a senior lecturer in the History Programme, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Jacob Golomb is Ahad Ha-am Professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the philosophical editor of the Hebrew University Magnes Press. Caroline Steinberg Gould is Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, where she established the Classical Studies Program and was instrumental in founding the Jewish Studies Program.

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