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Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death
R. Clifton Spargo
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Description for Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death
Hardback. In this original and magisterial study, Spargo uses Levinas's work to approach our understanding of the suffering and death of others, and in doing so reintroduces an essential ethical element to the reading of literature, culture, and everyday life. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Vigilant Memory focuses on the particular role of Emmanuel Levinas's thought in reasserting the ethical parameters for poststructuralist criticism in the aftermath of the Holocaust. More than simply situating Levinas's ethics within the larger context of his philosophy, R. Clifton Spargo offers a new explanation of its significance in relation to history. In critical readings of the limits and also the heretofore untapped possibilities of Levinasian ethics, Spargo explores the impact of the Holocaust on Levinas's various figures of injustice while examining the place of mourning, the bad conscience, the victim, and the stranger/neighbor as they appear in Levinas's ... Read more
Vigilant Memory focuses on the particular role of Emmanuel Levinas's thought in reasserting the ethical parameters for poststructuralist criticism in the aftermath of the Holocaust. More than simply situating Levinas's ethics within the larger context of his philosophy, R. Clifton Spargo offers a new explanation of its significance in relation to history. In critical readings of the limits and also the heretofore untapped possibilities of Levinasian ethics, Spargo explores the impact of the Holocaust on Levinas's various figures of injustice while examining the place of mourning, the bad conscience, the victim, and the stranger/neighbor as they appear in Levinas's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801883118
SKU
V9780801883118
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About R. Clifton Spargo
R. Clifton Spargo is an associate professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
Reviews for Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death
A marvelously lucid and interesting analysis of Levinas's notion of 'after Auschwitz.' Contemporary Literature 2006 This book provides an immensely engaging, rich, and contemporary analysis of Levinas's ethics.
Gregor Schnuer Substance Unique and indispensable for anyone engaged in scholarly treatments of ethics and politics.
Claire Katz Shofar 2008 An impressively well-documented, well-researched study.
Megan Craig Bryn Mawr ... Read more
Gregor Schnuer Substance Unique and indispensable for anyone engaged in scholarly treatments of ethics and politics.
Claire Katz Shofar 2008 An impressively well-documented, well-researched study.
Megan Craig Bryn Mawr ... Read more