Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence, Berel Lang (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 2009), 260 pp., cloth 50.00
This important book, which consists of twelve essays—five are revised versions of previously published pieces—has two main aims: to explore neglected aspects of the “presence” of the Holocaust (by which Lang means its “continuing place … in the contemporary world” [p. xi]), and to inquire into, and...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 474-476 |
| Review of: | Philosophical witnessing (Hanover [u.a.] : Univ. Press of New England, 2009) (Howland, Jacob)
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| Summary: | This important book, which consists of twelve essays—five are revised versions of previously published pieces—has two main aims: to explore neglected aspects of the “presence” of the Holocaust (by which Lang means its “continuing place … in the contemporary world” [p. xi]), and to inquire into, and show by way of example, what might be distinctive about a specifically philosophical manner of “witnessing” this presence., Lang's book is organized into three parts. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq054 |