01025cam a22002654a 4500991000895369707536090717s2009 it b 000 0 ita d9788823013667 b13928508-39ule_instBiblioteca Interfacoltàita324.245Novecento contemporaneo :studi su Lelio Basso : con la guida alle fonti per lo studio dei Comitati di solidarietáa democratica /a cura di Giancarlo MoninaRoma :Ediesse,c2009310 p. ;21 cm.SaggiInclude bibliografia (p. 229-307)Basso, LelioStudiSocialismoItaliaStoriaSec. 20.Monina, Giancarlo.b1392850802-04-1418-10-10991000895369707536LE002 324.245 NOV12002000617545le002gE0.00-l- 00000.i1518505919-10-10Novecento contemporaneo249292UNISALENTOle00218-10-10ma -itait 0003216nam 22006371 450 991078692340332120200514202323.01-4725-4565-61-4411-7628-410.5040/9781472545657(CKB)3710000000109488(EBL)1750225(SSID)ssj0000887621(PQKBManifestationID)12390791(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887621(PQKBWorkID)10846776(PQKB)10166019(MiAaPQ)EBC1750225(Au-PeEL)EBL1750225(CaPaEBR)ebr10867556(CaONFJC)MIL615770(OCoLC)893331355(OCoLC)1154841240(UtOrBLW)bpp09255605(EXLCZ)99371000000010948820140929d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInterrupting Auschwitz art, religion, philosophy /Josh CohenNew York :Continuum,2003.1 online resource (185 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8264-5552-2 0-8264-5551-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages [x]-xiv) and index.The interrupted absolute : art, religion and the "new categorical imperative" -- "The ever-broken promise of happiness" : interrupting art, or Adorno -- "Absolute insomnia" : interrupting religion, or Levinas -- "To preserve the question" : interrupting the book, or Jabes -- Conclusion : sharing the imperative.Hitler, wrote Theodor Adorno, imposed "a new categorical imperative on humankind.to arrange thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself." Interrupting Auschwitz argues that what gives this imperative its philosophical force and ethical urgency is the very impossibility of fulfilling it. But rather than being cause for despair, this failure offers a renewed conception of the tasks of thought and action. Precisely because the imperative cannot be fulfilled, it places thought in a state of perpetual incompletion, whereby our responsibility is never at an end and redemption is always interrupted.Josh Cohen argues that both Adorno's own writings on art after Auschwitz and Emmanuel Levinas' interpretations of Judaism reveal both thinkers as impelled by this logic of interruption, by a passionate refusal to bring thought to a point of completion. The analysis of their motifs of art and religion are brought together in a final chapter on the poet-philosopher Edmond JabFs.PHILOSOPHYGenocideMoral and ethical aspectsHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)InfluencePhilosophy, ModernEurope20th centuryPhilosophyGenocideMoral and ethical aspects.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Influence.Philosophy, Modern190Cohen Josh1970-922488UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910786923403321Interrupting Auschwitz3725802UNINA