Description
Book SynopsisAddresses conceptual and ethical questions that arise from historical accounts of the Holocaust.
Trade Review"These essays are extremely well written, with the clarity and accessibility that one has come to expect from Berel Lang, one of the most respected and significant philosophers writing about the Holocaust and its impact." Michael L. Morgan
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. In the Matter of Justice
1. The Nazi as Criminal: Inside and Outside the Holocaust
2. Forgiveness, Revenge, and the Limits of Holocaust Justice
3. Evil, Suffering, and the Holocaust
4. Comparative Evil: Measuring Numbers, Degrees, People
Part II. Language and Lessons
5. The Grammar of Antisemitism
6. The Unspeakable vs. the Testimonial: Holocaust Trauma in Holocaust History
7. Undoing Certain Mischievous Questions about the Holocaust
8. From the Particular to the Universal, and Forward: Representations and Lessons
Part III. For and Against Interpretation
9. Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (in Sex, Shit, and Status)
10. Lachrymose without Tears: Misreading the Holocaust in American Life
11. "Not Enough" vs. "Plenty": Which Did Pius XII?
12. The Evil in Genocide
13. Misinterpretation as the Author's Responsibility (Nietzsche's Fascism, for Instance)
Afterword: Philosophy and/of the Holocaust
Notes
Index
