Good and evil after Auschwitz : ethical implications for today / edited by Jack Bemporad, John T. Pawlikowski, and Joseph Sievers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bemporad, Jack.

Pawlikowski, John

Sievers, Joseph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Congresses.

Auschwitz (Concentration camp).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genocide--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.

Genocide.

Genocide--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 330 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : KTAV Pub. House, [2000]

Contents:

Part I. Thinking About God After Auschwitz

Abraham's Covenant Under Assault: The Need for a Post-Holocaust Theology, Jewish, Christian and Muslim / Emil L. Fackenheim 3

Between Remembering and Forgetting: The Shoah in the Era of Cultural Amnesia / Johann Baptist Metz 21

What Can We Jews Affirm About God After the Holocaust? / Jack Bemporad 29

"Whoever Does Not Experience the Hiding of the Face Is Not One of Them" God's Hiding of Himself, Good and Evil / Benedetto Carucci Viterbi 43

God: The Foundational Ethical Question after the Holocaust / John T. Pawlikowski 53

Steadfast Love and Truth after Auschwitz / Maureena Fritz 67

God Between Mercy and Justice: The Challenge of Auschwitz and the Hope of Universal Reconciliation / Dirk Ansorge 77

Part II. An Ethical Challenge

Between Will to Power and Dereliction: Speaking of Man after the Shoah / Emilio Baccarini 93

Doing Ethics in an Age of Science / Peter J. Haas 109

The Morality of Auschwitz? A Critical Confrontation with Peter Haas's Ethical Interpretation of the Holocaust / Didier Pollefeyt 119

Auschwitz from a Nuremberg Perspective: Medical and Ethical Implications / Etienne Lepicard 139

Part III Philosophy Faced with the Shoah

Moral Principles in Extreme Situations: Auschwitz and the Truth and the Human Condition / Armando Rigobello 155

Good and Evil after Auschwitz: Judgment / Gianfranco Dalmasso 161

The Limit and the Unlimited / Stefano Levi Della Torre 169

The Approach to the Question of Good and Evil in the Writings of Hans Jonas and Hannah Arendt / Bernard Dupuy 179

Auschwitz as Crucial Experiment: The Lord's Suffering Servant in the Interpretation of Andre Neher and Emmanuel Levinas / Irene Kajon 191

Part IV Within the Shoah

Remembrance and Responsibility: Rescuers of Jews During the Shoah / Eva Fleischner 203

Courage after the Shoah: Explorations of a Christian Virture / Michael B. McGarry 215

Aberrant Freedom and Impious Heroism: Observations on Conscience and Suspension of Ethical Evaluation in the Auschwitz Case / Massimo Giuliani 233

Working Through Bereavement: The Intersection of Memory and History / David Meghnagi 241

Spirit and Flesh: Toward a Post-Shoah, Post-Modern Incarnational Ethic / James Bernauer 257

Part V Proposals

Good and Evil After Auschwitz in Papal Teaching / Remi Hoeckman 271

The Banality of Good and Evil: Antisocial Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, and Jewish Religious Teaching / David R. Blumenthal 285

Part VI By Way of Conclusion

After Auschwitz, Ethics a Prime Responsibility / Jean Halperin 303

Victims' Voices: Texts Selected and Introduced by / Joseph Sievers 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0881256927

OCLC:

44702211