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OverviewConceptualizes the question of witness and responsibility, following the Holocaust, using continental philosophy, theology, and literary theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James D. HatleyPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9780791447062ISBN 10: 0791447065 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 19 October 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsIn this new and sensitive synthesis of scrupulous thinking about the Holocaust (beginning with scruples about the term Holocaust itself), James Hatley approaches all the major questions surrounding our overwhelming inadequacy in the aftermath of the irreparable. If there is anything unique (in a non-trivial sense) about the Holocaust, surely it is the imperious moral urgency that compels those who contemplate it to revise their view of what it means to be human, and to bear witness to such an event.Hatley's accomplishment, the fruit of his many years of research and instruction on the Holocaust, will prove a valuable aid to all who would, in whatever capacity, begin or carry on with the task of witness and response. - Michael B. Smith, translator of Alterity and Transcendence James Hatley has written an extraordinary meditation on suffering, witness, and responsibility. He offers a singularly brilliant thesis: that the suffering of the other individual is incomparable to my own and irremediable, and that the infinite responsibility and ineluctable witness to which I am obligated requires my ownership of this incapacity and this burden not as the defeat of my response but ironically as its enabling condition. As we reflect upon a century of violence and extremity, I predict that Hatley's meditation will set the stage for all serious future discussion of these matters. - Sandor Goodhart, author of Sacrificing Commentary: Reading the End of Literature An elegant reading of Levi, Celan, Levinas, and Borowski, one which demonstrates the power of literature within a philosophical framework, and which uses this relationship in order to remind us not just of our ethical response to the Shoah, but of our ethical response to the narratives themselves. - Claire Katz, Pennsylvania State University """In this new and sensitive synthesis of scrupulous thinking about the Holocaust (beginning with scruples about the term Holocaust itself), James Hatley approaches all the major questions surrounding our overwhelming inadequacy in the aftermath of the irreparable. If there is anything unique (in a non-trivial sense) about the Holocaust, surely it is the imperious moral urgency that compels those who contemplate it to revise their view of what it means to be human, and to bear witness to such an event.Hatley's accomplishment, the fruit of his many years of research and instruction on the Holocaust, will prove a valuable aid to all who would, in whatever capacity, begin or carry on with the task of witness and response."" - Michael B. Smith, translator of Alterity and Transcendence ""James Hatley has written an extraordinary meditation on suffering, witness, and responsibility. He offers a singularly brilliant thesis: that the suffering of the other individual is incomparable to my own and irremediable, and that the infinite responsibility and ineluctable witness to which I am obligated requires my ownership of this incapacity and this burden not as the defeat of my response but ironically as its enabling condition. As we reflect upon a century of violence and extremity, I predict that Hatley's meditation will set the stage for all serious future discussion of these matters."" - Sandor Goodhart, author of Sacrificing Commentary: Reading the End of Literature ""An elegant reading of Levi, Celan, Levinas, and Borowski, one which demonstrates the power of literature within a philosophical framework, and which uses this relationship in order to remind us not just of our ethical response to the Shoah, but of our ethical response to the narratives themselves."" - Claire Katz, Pennsylvania State University" Author InformationJames Hatley is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Salisbury State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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