The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust

Section One. Engaging the Double Binds

1. Double Binds: Ethics after Auschwitz
John K. Roth

2. Morality after Auschwitz? Haas, Nietzsche, and the Possibilities for Revaluation
Beth Hawkins Benedix

3. Cutting the Roots of the Holocaust: Resisting the Enlightenment’s Universalizing Impulse
Husain Kassim

4. The Tikkun of Philosophy and the Idea of Humanity
Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith

Section Two. Surveying the Fragments

5. Survival of the Closest: Gender and Agency in Holocaust Resistance
Tam K. Parker, Myrna Goldenberg

6. The Role of Moral Examples in Teaching Ethics after the Holocaust: Reconsidering the Rescue of the Danish Jews
Hanne Trautner-Kromann

7. Dignity and Despair: The Double Bind of Jean Améry’s Odyssey
Mark Stern

Section Three. Salvaging the Ethical

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 Suffering with Levinas
Jules Simon

10. Reconstituting Political Philosophy after the Holocaust: Toward the Prevention of Genocide
Mitchel Gerber

Keywords: Linguistics, English, Literature, general, Literary Theory, European Literature, History of World War II and the Holocaust