A Holocaust Reader

Responses to the Nazi Extermination

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

842 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

This book collects important and representative writings that respond to the Nazi atrocities and death camps. Written by theologians, literary figures, cultural critics, philosophers, and others, these writings survey the major themes in Western culture that the Holocaust raises and the most provocative and influential responses to these themes and to the Holocaust itself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-09-28
Mått:167 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:576 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195059588

Utforska kategorier

Andra världskriget inom Historia och arkeologi
Biografier inom Biografier
Förintelsen inom Historia och arkeologi

Recensioner i media

"An excellent collection for courses undertaking philosophical and religious examinations of the Holocaust."--Wayne Bowen, Ouachita Baptist University

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Introduction 1. EARLY REFLECTIONS Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz Jean Améry: On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew Theodor W. Adorno: Meditations on Metaphysics Hannah Arendt: The Concentration Camps Martin Buber: The Dialogue between Heaven and Earth Elie Wiesel: A Plea for the Dead 2. CENTRAL THEOLOGICAL RESPONSES Richard Rubenstein: The Making of a Rabbi Richard Rubenstein: Symposium on Jewish Belief Eliezer Berkovits: Faith after the Holocaust Irving Greenberg: Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity, and Modernity after the Holocaust Emil L. Fackenheim: Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A Fragment Emil L. Fackenheim: Holocaust Emil L. Fackenheim: The Holocaust and the State of Israel: Their Relation A. Roy Eckardt: Christians and Jews: Along a Theological Frontier 3. DEVELOPMENTS: THE 1970s AND 1980s Michael Wyschogrod: Faith and the Holocaust Amos Funkenstein: Theological Interpretations of the Holocaust: A Balance Arthur A. Cohen: Thinking the Tremendum: Some Theological Implications of the Death Camps Franklin Sherman: Speaking of God after Auschwitz Robert E. Willis: Auschwitz and the Nuturing of Conscience David Tracy: Religious Values after the Holocaust: A Catholic View Johann Baptist Metz: Christians and Jews after Auschwitz: Being a Meditation Also on the End of Bourgeois Religion Emil L. Fackenheim: The Holocaust and Philosophy Hans Jonas: The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice 4. THE HOLOCAUST AND WESTERN CULTURE: THE 1980s AND 1990s Saul Friedlander: The Shoah in Present Historical Consciousness Omer Bartov: Intellectuals on Auschwitz: Memory, History, and Truth Kenneth Seeskin: What Philosophy Can and Cannot Say about Evil Kenneth Seeskin: Coming to Terms with Failure: A Philosophical Dilemma Michael André Bernstein: Narrating the Shoah Berel Lang: The Representation of Evil: Ethical Content as Literary Form Andreas Huyssen: Monuments and Holocaust Memory in a Media Age Bibliography Index