The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust

Salvaging the Fragments

• Author(s): J. Geddes, J. Roth, Jules Simon,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 183
• ISBN_10: 0230620949
  ISBN_13: 9780230620940
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / European / General , History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a world still besieged by genocide and atrocity.