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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lang, Berel. Act and idea in the Nazi genocide. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)609336243 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Berel Lang |
ISBN: | 0815629931 9780815629931 |
OCLC Number: | 50718412 |
Description: | xxviii, 258 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | I. The presence of genocide: Intending genocide -- The knowledge of good and evil -- The decision not to decide -- II. Representations of genocide: Language and genocide -- Jabès and the measure of history -- The representation of evil: ethical content as literary form -- III. Histories and genocide: Genocide and Kant's enlightenment -- Zionism in the aftermath -- Speaking, writing, teaching: institutions of memory. |
Series Title: | Religion, theology, and the Holocaust. |
Responsibility: | Berel Lang. |
Abstract:
This work is an analysis of the ideology, causal patterns, and means employed in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. It argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, and the role of knowledge in ethical decisions.
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