03495nam 2200613Ia 450 991080686290332120200520144314.00-7914-9195-1(CKB)2670000000233685(EBL)3408006(SSID)ssj0000676455(PQKBManifestationID)11418804(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676455(PQKBWorkID)10679130(PQKB)11707931(MiAaPQ)EBC3408006(OCoLC)794701356(MdBmJHUP)muse14088(Au-PeEL)EBL3408006(CaPaEBR)ebr10587205(DE-B1597)683664(DE-B1597)9780791491959(EXLCZ)99267000000023368519991213d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSuffering witness the quandary of responsibility after the irreparable /James HatleyAlbany State University of New York Pressc20001 online resource (284 p.)SUNY Series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of ArtDescription based upon print version of record.0-7914-4705-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index.""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Imperative to Witness the Haftling""; ""The Scene of Annihilation: Testimony's Ethical Resistance""; ""The Transcendence of the Face""; ""Testimony and History: The Crisis of Address""; ""Witnessing Trauma: Suffering the Perpetrator's Address""; ""Blaspheming G-d: Facing the Persecuted""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""Drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, James Hatley uses the prose of Primo Levi and Tadeusz Borowski, as well as the poetry of Paul Celan, to question why witnessing the Shoah is so pressing a responsibility for anyone living in its aftermath. He argues that the witnessing of irreparable loss leaves one in an irresoluble quandary but that the attentiveness of that witness resists the destructive legacy of annihilation."In this new and sensitive synthesis of scrupulous thinking about the Holocaust (beginning with scruples about the term Holocaust itself), James Hatley approaches all the major questions surrounding our overwhelming inadequacy in the aftermath of the irreparable. If there is anything unique (in a non-trivial sense) about the Holocaust, surely it is the imperious moral urgency that compels those who contemplate it to revise their view of what it means to be human, and to bear witness to such an event.SUNY Series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of ArtHolocaust survivorsPsychologyHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)InfluenceHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Moral and ethical aspectsHolocaust survivorsPsychology.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Influence.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Moral and ethical aspects.940.53/18Hatley James1949-1611753MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806862903321Suffering witness3940147UNINA