The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust Salvaging the Fragments [Hardcover]

The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a world still besieged by genocide and atrocity.PART I: ENGAGING THE DOUBLE BINDS 'Double Binds: Ethics after Auschwitz'; J.K.Roth 'Morality after Auschwitz?: Haas, Nietzsche, and the Possibilities for Revaluation'; B.Benedix 'Cutting the Roots of the Holocaust: Resisting the Enlightenment's Universalizing Impulse'; H.Kassim 'The Tikkun of Philosophy and the Idea of Humanity'; E.Galbraith PART II: SURVEYING THE FRAGMENTS 'Survival of the Closest: Gender and Agency in Holocaust Resistance'; T.K.Parker & M.Goldenberg 'The Role of Moral Examples in Teaching Ethics after the Holocaust: Reconsidering the Rescue of the Danish Jews'; H.Trautner-Kromann 'Dignity and Despair: The Double Bind of Jean Am?ry's Odyssey'; M.Stern PART III: SALVAGING THE ETHICAL 'Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust'; J.L.Geddes 'Making Ethical Sense of Useless Suffering with Levinas'; J.Simon 'Reconstituting Political Philosophy After the Holocaust: Towards the Prevention of Genocide'; M.Gerber

This is an important book . . .It includes penetrating reviews of the thought systems that failed and important reports on new ethical resources...This book deserves to be read by anyone wrestling with ethics, religious meaning, the nature of humanity, and the need to prevent a recurrence of genocide. - Rabbi Irving Greenberg, founding President, Jewish Life Network and past Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council

A worthy contribution to contemporary philosophy; itoffers more questions than answers as it probes some of the finestthinkers of our age. - Michael Berenbaum, Director, Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of thelı