Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence

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« Contents » Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii« i » the holocaust at philosophy’s address 1. Philosophical Witnessing: “. . . And only I have survived to tell you” 3 2. Truth at Risk and the Holocaust’s Response 17 3. Evil and Understanding: A Holocaust Dilemma 33 4. Jaspers’ Die Schuldfrage: A Presence Early and Late 57« ii » vs. the unspeakable, the unshowable, and the unthinkable 5. Holocaust-Representation in the Genre of Silence 77 6. Representation and Misrepresentation: On or about the Holocaust 92 7. Applied Ethics, Post-Holocaust 112 8. The Jewish Declaration of War against the Nazis 125« iii » the presence as future 9. From the Holocaust to Group Rights: Minorities in a Majority World 139 10. Metaphysical Racism (Or: Biological Warfare by Other Means) 156 11. Hyphenated-Jews and the Anxiety of Identity 171 12. Reconciliation: Not Revenge, Not Forgiveness, Perhaps Not Even Justice 187 Afterword Wound and Scar 203 Appendix: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 207 Notes 211 Index 231 ...