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Vigilant memory :Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death

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Vigilant memory :Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death

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Baltimore, Md.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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

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R. Clifton Spargo

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Re-thinking ethics -- The language of the other -- Ethics as critique -- Post-5491 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?

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، L?ش‌vinas, Emmanuel

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، Holocaust, Jewish )9391-5491(

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، Grief

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، Bereavement

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، Elegiac poetry

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، Ethics

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، Conduct of life

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Spargo, R. Clifton

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AU

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