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Vigilant Memory : Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death.
Title:
Vigilant Memory : Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death.
Author:
Spargo, R. Clifton.
ISBN:
9780801888847
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Re-Theorizing 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 -- Afterword. Ethics versus History: Is There Still an Ought in Our Remembrance? -- The Memory of Injustice -- Nobody Has to Remember -- Why Should I Care? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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