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Vigilant memoryEmmanuel Levinas, the...

L�evinas, Emmanuel.

Vigilant memoryEmmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vigilant memoryR. Clifton Spargo.
Reminder of title:	Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death /
Author:	Spargo, R. Clifton.
Published:	Baltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press,2006.
Description:	xiii, 311 p. ;24 cm.
Subject:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	0801888840 (electronic bk.)

Vigilant memoryEmmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death /
Spargo, R. Clifton.

Vigilant memoryEmmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death /[electronic resource] :R. Clifton Spargo. - Baltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press,2006. - xiii, 311 p. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-304) and index.

Re-thinking 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 -- Ethics versus history: is there still an ought in our remembrance? -- The memory of injustice -- Nobody has to remember -- Why should I care?

Electronic reproduction.
Boulder, Colo. :
NetLibrary,
2008.

Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.

ISBN: 0801888840 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

312920
L�evinas, Emmanuel.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

198401
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BF575.G7 / S63 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 152.4

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