LEADER 03853nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910816853303321 005 20240416173445.0 010 $a0-8018-8884-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000482251 035 $a(OCoLC)229431540 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10188477 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267510 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11233066 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267510 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10334683 035 $a(PQKB)10398594 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000686396 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11453534 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686396 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10731370 035 $a(PQKB)11682080 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318277 035 $a(OCoLC)794701463 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318277 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10188477 035 $a(OCoLC)923192553 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000482251 100 $a20050823d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVigilant memory $eEmmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death /$fR. Clifton Spargo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBaltimore, MD $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8018-8311-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-304) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 606 $aGrief 606 $aBereavement 606 $aElegiac poetry 606 $aEthics 606 $aConduct of life 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 615 0$aGrief. 615 0$aBereavement. 615 0$aElegiac poetry. 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aConduct of life. 676 $a152.4 700 $aSpargo$b R. Clifton$0955691 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816853303321 996 $aVigilant memory$94127434 997 $aUNINA