Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust And Its Legacy

by Merchant, Ismail K.

• ISBN13: 9780664223533
• ISBN10: 0664223532
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781611642148
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Summary

Distinctively coauthored by a Christian scholar and a Jewish scholar, this monumental, interdisciplinary study explores the various ways in which the Holocaust has been studied and assesses its continuing significance. The authors develop an analysis of the Holocaust's historical roots, its shattering impact on human civilization, and its decisive importance in determining the fate of the world. This revised edition takes into account developments in Holocaust studies since the first edition was published.

Author Biography

John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, where he directs the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
Prologue: What Is the Holocaust?	1	(22)
PART ONE: HOLOCAUST ORIGINS	23	(96)
1 The Jew as Outsider: The Greco-Roman and Early Christian Worlds	25	(24)
2 The Triumph of Christianity and the "Teaching of Contempt"	49	(22)
3 The Irony of Emancipation: France and the Dreyfus Affair	71	(26)
4 Toward Total Domination	97	(22)
PART TWO: THE NAZIS IN POWER	119	(96)
5 "Rational Antisemitism"	121	(22)
6 War and the Final Solution	143	(24)
7 "A Racial Struggle of Pitiless Severity"	167	(18)
8 "Priority over All Other Matters"	185	(30)
PART THREE: RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCAUST	215	(140)
9 Victims and Survivors	217	(32)
10 Their Brothers' Keepers? Christians, Churches, and Jews	249	(42)
11 What Can-and Cannot-Be Said? Artistic and Literary Responses to the Holocaust	291	(36)
12 God and History: Philosophical and Religious Responses to the Holocaust	327	(28)
Epilogue: Business as Usual? Ethics after the Holocaust	355	(24)
Notes	379	(74)
A Chronology of Crucial Holocaust-Related Events	453	(4)
Select Bibliography	457	(4)
Index	461