| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Vigilant memory/ R. Clifton Spargo. |
| Reminder of title: |
Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death / |
| Author: |
Spargo, R. Clifton. |
| Published: |
Baltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press, : 2006., |
| Description: |
xiii, 311 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Re-thinking ethics -- The language of the other -- Ethics as critique -- Post-1945 memory -- 1. Ethics as unquieted memory -- Facing death -- Mourning the other who dies -- To whom do our funerary emotions refer? -- Reading grief's excess in the Phaedo -- The death of every other -- The universal relevance of the unjust death -- The Holocaust--not just anybody's injustice -- 2. The unpleasure of conscience -- Is sorry really the hardest word? -- Unpleasure, revisited -- The bad conscience in history -- The bad conscience and the Holocaust -- Coda -- 3. Where there are no victorious victims -- Accountability in the name of the victim -- Not just any victim -- Levinas and the question of victim-subjectivity -- Just who substitutes for another? -- Victim of circumstances -- Questionably useful suffering -- 4. Of the others who are stranger than neighbors -- The stranger, metaphorically speaking -- The memory of the stranger -- Somebody's knocking at the door... -- Lest we forget--the neighbor -- The community of neighbors--is it a good thing? -- How well do I know my neighbor? The exigency of Israel and the Holocaust -- Ethics versus history: is there still an ought in our remembrance? -- The memory of injustice -- Nobody has to remember -- Why should I care? |
| Subject: |
Bereavement. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=215940An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0801888840 (electronic bk.) |