Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence

Index

« Index » Adorno, Theodor, 9 Affirmative Action, 153–4, 168–70, 226n8 Agassiz, Louis, 157–8 Ahad Ha’am, 182–3 Antisemitism, 162–5 Appelfeld, Aharon, 28, 80–81, 86, 89, 106–7, 110 Appiah, Anthony, 157–8 Arendt, Hannah, 9, 12–13, 19, 53–56, 84, 212n3, 219nn44, 45; 221nn7, 9 Aristotle, 12, 97, 164 Aurelius, Marcus, 60 Ayer, A. J., 10 Babel, Isaac, 77, 222n1 Bak, Samuel, 89–90 Barnes, Julian, 223n3 Baron, Salo, 178 Baruch, Bernard, 133 Baudrillard, Jean, 214n18 Benigni, Roberto, 99–101 Bentham, Jeremy, 150 Berkowitz, Eliezer, 41, 43–44, 48 Bernstein, Richard, 219nn44, 45 Blaustein–Ben Gurion Agreement, 182 Borges, Jorge Luis, 78 Borowski, Thadeusz, 5, 110 Brandeis, Louis, 227n1 Browning, Christopher, 224n3, 225n2 Buber, Martin, 9–10, 48, 211n6 Burke, Edmund, 227n15 Cage, John, 84 Camus, Albert, 72 Celan, Paul, 28, 81, 85–86, 107 Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon, 96 Cohen, Arthur A., 52–53 Cohen, Hermann, 35 Collective guilt, 65–69 Cutter, William, 223n5 Darwin, Charles, 162 Descartes, Rene, 23, 60 de Klerk, Frederik Willem, 188–89, 193 Donne, John, 205 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 94 Du Bois, W. E. B., 165 Eco, Umberto, 29 Eichmann, Adolf, 12–13, 53–57, 134 Elazar, S. Daniel, 227n4 Epstein, Leslie, 85 Elkins, Stanley, 161 Evil: continuum theory, 40–48; history of, 35–37; problem of, 33–35; transformative theory, 49–53 Fackenheim, Emil, 9, 51–52, 183 Farber, Marvin, 9 Feigl, Herbert, 9 “Final Solution” (Endlösung), 6, 16, 40, 73 Finkelstein, Norman, 117 Fischer, Ludwig, 134 Forgiveness, 194–6 Foucault, Michel, 25 Frankfurter, Felix, 133 Friedländer, Saul, 84, 215n20 232 index Genocide, 16, 26, 40–41, 140–4; United Nations Convention on, 29, 146–9, 207–10 Glazer, Nathan, 173 Goebbels, Joseph, 128–31, 134–6 Goya, Francisco, 86 Grass, Günter, 80 Green, Gerald, 106 Greenberg, R. Irving, 219n42 Grossman, Vassily, 28, 83 Group rights, 140–55 Haggadah, 5–7 Halivni, David Weiss, 218n30 Hamacher, Werner, 216n8 Hegel, G. W. F., 84, 94 Heidegger, Martin, 72, 163–4, 220n3 Heller, Erich, 212n2 Hempel, Carl, 9 Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 48 Hilberg, Raul, 81, 213n7 Himmler, Heinrich, 40, 140, 160 Hitler, Adolf, 7, 26, 61, 127, 134, 144, 225n2 Hochhuth, Rolf, 98 Holocaust: bystanders, 61, 114, 221n8; collective guilt, 64–69; denial, 21, 26–7, 99, 214n14, 215n20; exploitation of, 112–19; figurative discourse, 37, 79–81, 115–16; films, 87–89; and Israel, 44–45, 183–6; guilt, 57–74; misrepresentations of, 92–111; Nuremberg laws, 160–1; Nuremberg trials, 63, 144–5; and Poland, 119–24; reconciliation, 199–202; representations of, 70–2, 200; “Righteous Gentiles,” 114; as “self–defense,” 127, 131–4; silences about, 77–91; uniqueness question, 23, 31, 40, 216nn11, 13; Wehrmacht, role of, 59; witnessing, 15–16; and Zionism, 177–80 Horkheimer, Max, 9 Horowitz, R. Shabbetai Sheftel, 39 Howe, Irving, 175 Hume, David, 19, 212n10 Husserl, Edmund, 11 Hyphenated identity, 171–86 International Criminal Court, 30, 153 James, William, 24 Jaspers, Karl, xii, 57–74, 113 Job, 3–5; 33–34, 46 Johnson, Samuel, 88 Jonas, Hans, 9, 50–51 Justice as retributive, 190–2, 201 Kant, Immanuel, 12, 23–24, 78, 190 Kaplan, Mordechai, 48–49 Katz, Jacob, 216n9 Katz, Steven T., 213n8, 216n13 Kaufman, Theodore N., xii, 125–36, 199 Kazin, Alfred, 98 Kertesz, Imre, 215n6 Kierkegaard, Soren, 175 Klemperer, Viktor von, 220n2 Kosinski, Jerszy, 28 Kovner, Abba, 109 Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 9 Lamm, Norman, 45 Lang, Berel, 82, 214n18, 216n13, 227n2, 229n5 Lanzmann, Claude, 88, 106 Leibniz, G. W., 42 Leibowitz, Yeshayahu, 48 index 233 Lemkin, Rafael, 30, 142–45 Levi, Primo, 5, 16, 40, 80, 83, 85 Levinas, Emmanuel, 10, 48 Libera, Zbigniew, 89–90 Lind, Jakov, 28, 80 Lyotard, Jean-Francois, 81 Maimonides, Moses, 42, 217nn15, 26 Mandela, Nelson, 189, 198–9 Marcel, Gabriel, 72 Marcuse, Herbert, 9 Marr, Wilhelm, 162 Maybaum, Ignaz, 217n22 Melville, Herman, 96 Mendel, Gregor, 162 Michaelangelo Buonarotti, 96 Mill, John Stuart, 150 Moore, G. E., 215n19 Morgenthau, Henry, 133, 199 Motherwell, Robert, 86 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 173 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 119–20 Munch, Edvard, 86 Mussolini, Benito, 61 Neiman, Susan, 215n5 Nicolson, Harold, 165 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 25, 225n1 Novick, Peter, 117 Ofer, Dalia, 82 Ozick, Cynthia, 102, 110 Pagis, Dan, 81 Picasso, Pablo, 86 Pius XII, 98–99 Plato, 30, 56, 90–1 Popper, Karl, 9–10 Racism, 156–70; and Racialism, 157–59 Rassinier, Paul, 134 Renaissance, the, 17–21 Ringelblum, Immanuel, 4, 109 Roosevelt, Franklin...