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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis 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
Table of ContentsTable 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
