The response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust : the activities of the Vaad ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939-1945 / by Efraim Zuroff.
Efraim Zuroff
BookThis book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the Holocaust is and will remain impossible, we cannot rest upon that impossibility. Rather, the impossibility of forgiveness must be thought in another way. In an epoch of ?worldwidization,? we may not be able simply to escape the violence of scenes and rhetoric that repeatedly portray apology, reconciliation, and forgiveness as accomplishable acts. Accompanied by Jacques Derrida?s thought of forgiveness of the unforgivable, and its elaboration in relation to crimes against humanity, the book undertakes close readings of literary, philosophical, and cinematic texts by Simon Wiesenthal, Jean Améry, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Robert Antelme and Eva Mozes Kor. These texts contend with the idea that the crimes of the Nazis are inexpiable, that they lie beyond any possible atonement or repair. Banki argues that the juridical concept of crimes against humanity calls for a thought of forgiveness?one that would not imply closure of the infinite wounds of the past. How could such a forgiveness be thought or dreamed? Banki shows that if today we cannot simply escape the ?worldwidization? of forgiveness, then it is necessary to rethink what forgiveness is, the conditions under which it supposedly takes place, and especially its relation to justice.
Title |
The forgiveness to come : the Holocaust and the hyper-ethical / Peter Banki. |
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Additional Titles |
Holocaust and the hyper-ethical |
Edition |
First edition. |
Contributors |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (sponsoring body) |
Publisher |
New York : Fordham University Press |
Creation Date |
2018 |
Notes |
"Made possible by a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index. |
Content |
Introduction: to forgive the unforgivable -- The survival of the question: Simon Wiesenthal's The sunflower -- Reading forgiveness in a Marrano idiom: (Jacques Derrida) -- Crimes against humanity or the phantasm of "We, men" -- A hyper-ethics of irreconsilable contradictions: Vladimir Jankélévitch -- Conclusion: forgiveness as a Jewish joke -- Afterword: what an art of living! |
Series |
Just ideas : transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thought |
Extent |
xii, 200 pages 23 cm. |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2018 |
National Library system number |
990043795030205171 |
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