The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust Salvaging the Fragmen
The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a wor
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The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust Salvaging the Fragments
Edited by
Jennifer L. Geddes, John K. Roth, and Jules Simon
the double binds of ethics after the holocaust Copyright © Jennifer L. Geddes, John K. Roth, and Jules Simon, 2009. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-61492-5 All rights reserved. First published in 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States – a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-37863-0
ISBN 978-0-230-62094-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/9780230620940 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Macmillan Publishing Solutions First edition: May 2009 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Excerpts from Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After, trans. Rosette C. Lamont (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 256 and 276, quoted in Chapter 5 are reprinted with permission from the publisher. ©1995 by Yale University Press.
How is it possible to speak, when you feel . . . a strange double bind : an infinite claim to speak, a duty to speak infinitely, imposing itself with irrepressible force, and at the same time, an almost physical impossibility to speak, a choking feeling. —Sarah Kofman, Smothered Words
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
Section One: Engaging the Double Binds
1
Introduction to Section One
3
1. Double Binds: Ethics after Auschwitz John K. Roth
5
2. Morality after Auschwitz? Haas, Nietzsche, and the Possibilities for Revaluation Beth Hawkins Benedix
25
3. Cutting the Roots of the Holocaust: Resisting the Enlightenment’s Universalizing Impulse Husain Kassim
43
4. The Tikkun of Philosophy and the Idea of Humanity Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith
55
Section Two: Surveying the Fragments
67
Introduction to Section Two
69
5. Survival of the Closest: Gender and Agency in Holocaust Resistance Tam K. Parker and Myrna Goldenberg 6. The Role of Moral Examples in Teaching Ethics after the Holocaust: Reconsidering the Rescue of the Danish Jews Hanne Trautner-Kromann
71
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7. Dignity and Despair: The Double Bind of Jean Améry’s Odyssey Mark Stern
101
Section Three: Salvaging the Ethical
115
Introduction to Section Three
117
8. Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust Jennifer L. Geddes 9. Making Ethical Sense of Useless Suff
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