Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust

by Harold Kaplan

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Prompted by the suicides of Jean Amery and Primo Levi, Harold Kaplan sought to ask what the Holocaust can be said to affirm even even in the face of its overwhelming negation of meaning. "I wrote this book," he explains, "to translate the Holocaust out of the moral and intellectual shock which contemplates the alienation of humanity from itself. I wished to understand the 'crime against humanity' as a viable category of the moral reason. And I wished...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226424162

ISBN13:9780226424163

Release Date:March 1994

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:230 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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