Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challanges
by Rosenberg, Alan; James R. Watson; Detlef Linke
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- 1573927333
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Amherst, NY: Humanity Books / Prometheus Books. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2000. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 1573927333 . Publisher's laminated boards. What happens when an entire group of human beings is excluded from the definition of humanity? How is the power of language used to distort reality? What happens when a comprehensive economic plan is based on theft, brainwashing, slave labor, and murder? These and other philosophical questions about the Holocaust are contemplated in Contemporary Portraits of Auschwitz.In 1988, a group of philosophers who had survived the Holocaust, or had known people at the Auschwitz death camp, decided to found an organization that would examine the philosophical implications of Shoah: the Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust (SPSGH). Noting that the history and the personal horror stories had been told and retold, SPSGH's founders Sander Lee, Berel Lang, and Alan Rosenberg argued that too little study had been so far devoted to the philosophy of Hitler's final solution and other genocides.Auschwitz problematized the Enlightenment concept of humanity, and other concepts. The perfection of state-sponsored and -administered mass death issued in new forms of language, moral indifference, and forgetting. Philosophy often even fails to mention the Holocaust in discussions of National Socialism. And the disaster of Auschwitz has been largely neutralized by the normalization of a "ruined" language.This volume includes essays in several areas: Witnesses and Testimonies; Morality and Ethics; Art and Poetry; History and Memory; and The Crisis of Representation. Contributors are Karyn Ball, Eve Bannet, Debra Bergoffen, James Bernauer, Klaus Dorner, Jennifer N. Fink, Roger Fjellstrom, Ruth Liberman, Burkhard Liebsch, Alan Milchman, Raj Sampath, Paul Sars, Hans Seigfried, Thomas W. Simon, Dan Stone, Peter Strasser, Frans van Peperstratten, Erik M. Vogt, Andrew Weinstein, and others.. Other than a slight ding on the front cover, the volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. FINE.. Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 355 pp .
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- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27900
- Title
- Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challanges
- Author
- Rosenberg, Alan; James R. Watson; Detlef Linke
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- 1st Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1573927333
- ISBN 13
- 9781573927338
- Publisher
- Humanity Books / Prometheus Books
- Place of Publication
- Amherst, NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 1573927333, Holocaust;, Auschwitz;, Shoah;, Philosophy;, Genocide;, Judaica;, Jewish History;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Judaica; Philosophy & Social Sciences;
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