I am grateful for the contributions made by the following people either directly to this book itself or to the advancement of my thought and scholarship during the writing of it: Leslie Brisman, Susan Brisman, Bill Brown, Anne-Lise François, Kevis Goodman, Geoffrey Hartman, Peter Hayes, Sara Horowitz, Christine Krueger, Walter Benn Michaels, Anne Ream, Margaret Reid, Jahan Ramazani, and Michael Rothberg. Ethics versus History: Is There Still an Ought in Our Remembrance? 243 The Memory of Injustice 249 Nobody Has to Remember 254 Why Should I Care? 259 Notes 201 Lest We Forget-the Neighbor 209 The Community of Neighbors-Is It a Good Thing? 216 How Well Do I Know My Neighbor? The Exigency of Israel and the Holocaust 228Īfterword. The Stranger, Metaphorically Speaking 183 The Memory of the Stranger 190 Somebody’s Knocking at the Door. Victim of Circumstances 158 Questionably Useful Suffering 166Ĥ Of the Others Who Are Stranger than Neighbors Is Sorry Really the Hardest Word? 82 Unpleasure, Revisited 89 The Bad Conscience in History 96 The Bad Conscience and the Holocaust 105 Coda 118Īccountability in the Name of the Victim 127 Not Just Any Victim 134 Levinas and the Question of Victim-Subjectivity 138 Just Who Substitutes for Another? 144 Re-Theorizing Ethics 8 The Language of the Other 14 Ethics as Critique 19 Post-1945 Memory 24įacing Death 36 Mourning the Other Who Dies 40 To Whom Do Our Funerary Emotions Refer? 44 Reading Grief’s Excess in the Phaedo 48 The Death of Every Other 55 The Universal Relevance of the Unjust Death 60 The Holocaust-Not Just Anybody’s Injustice 67 ![]() In Loving Memory of My Father, Robert Clifton Spargo 1941–2005 BF575.G7S63 2006 152.4-dc22 2005024562 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Includes bibliographical references and index. Vigilant memory : Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death / R. Published 2006 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spargo, R. © 2006 The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. ![]() The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore ![]() Vigilant Memory Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death
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