Vigilant memory : Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death / / R. Clifton Spargo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816853303321
• Autore: Spargo R. Clifton
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, MD, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-8018-8884-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 152.4
• Soggetti: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Grief; Bereavement; Elegiac poetry; Ethics; Conduct of life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-304) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this original and magisterial study, Spargo uses Levinas's work to approach our understanding of the suffering and death of others, and in doing so reintroduces an essential ethical element to the reading of literature, culture, and everyday life.