LEADER 03212nam 22006371 450 001 9910819629403321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4725-4565-6 010 $a1-4411-7628-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472545657 035 $a(CKB)3710000000109488 035 $a(EBL)1750225 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000887621 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12390791 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887621 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10846776 035 $a(PQKB)10166019 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1750225 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1750225 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10867556 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL615770 035 $a(OCoLC)893331355 035 $a(OCoLC)1154841240 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255605 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000109488 100 $a20140929d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInterrupting Auschwitz $eart, religion, philosophy /$fJosh Cohen 210 1$aNew York :$cContinuum,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (185 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-5552-2 311 $a0-8264-5551-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [x]-xiv) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 8 $aHitler, 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.PHILOSOPHY 606 $aGenocide$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xInfluence 606 $aPhilosophy, Modern$zEurope$y20th century 606 $2Philosophy 615 0$aGenocide$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xInfluence. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Modern 676 $a190 700 $aCohen$b Josh$f1970-$0922488 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819629403321 996 $aInterrupting Auschwitz$93988489 997 $aUNINA