Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust

Simone Gigliotti is a senior lecturer in the History Programme, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.Jacob Golomb is Ahad Ha-am Professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the philosophical editor of the Hebrew University Magnes Press.Caroline Steinberg Gould is Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, where she established the Classical Studies Program and was instrumental in founding the Jewish Studies Program.

• Table of contentsForeword: As It Was (or at least, As It Might Have Been), by Berel LangAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Art in Theory and Practice1. Morality and Narrative Unreliability: The Danger of Schlink's Der Vorleser, by Caroline S. Gould2. Body Double: Portraits, Memory and the Face of Evil, by Shelley Hornstein3. “Ethik und Aesthetik sind Eins”: Poetic Philosophy on Auschwitz, by Sarah Liu4. Responding to the Holocaust: Fackenheim, Levinas, Cavell, by Michael Morgan5. Philosophical Fancies: Four Fantastic Fables, by Howard NeedlerPart II: The Particular and the Universal: A Narrow Bridge6. "On a 'Nietzschean' Dispute between Ahad Ha'am and Berdichevski, by Jacob Golomb7. Each of Us a Nation: Rethinking Nationalisms, by Bert Nepaulsingh8. Anti-apartheid exile: South African Jewish activists in Britain, 1948-1989, by Susan Dabney Pennybacker9. Speaking a Word for Nature: Thoreau’s Philosophical Saunter, by Gary Shapiro10. Nietzsche, half a Nazi? A Response to Crane B

This remarkable collection of fourteen essays, generated by ‘the Nazi genocide of the Jews,’ exceeds expectations at nearly every turn for both its deeply personal voice and its analytic acumen. Taken as a whole, Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust is global in scope, historically rich and philosophically diverse. It rarely abandons its Jewish perspective on a range of nearly intractable issues and in that respect alone, it is a fitting tribute to Berel Lang.