Vigilant Memory

AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionRe-Theorizing EthicsThe Language of the OtherEthics as CritiquePost-1945 Memory1. Ethics as Unquieted MemoryFacing DeathMourning the Other Who DiesTo Whom Do Our Funerary Emotions Refer?Reading Grief's Excess in the PhaedoThe Death of Every OtherThe Universal Relevance of the Unjust DeathThe Holocaust'Not Just Anybody's Injustice2. The Unpleasure of ConscienceIs Sorry Really the Hardest Word?Unpleasure, RevisitedThe Bad Conscience in HistoryThe Bad Conscience and the HolocaustCoda3. Where There Are No Victorious VictimsAccountability in the Name of the VictimNot Just Any VictimLevinas and the Question of Victim-SubjectivityJust Who Substitutes for Another?Victim of CircumstancesQuestionably Useful Suffering4. Of the Others Who Are Stranger than NeighborsThe Stranger, Metaphorically SpeakingThe Memory of the StrangerSomebody's Knocking at the Door...Lest We Forget'the NeighborThe Community of Neighbors'Is It a Good Thing?How Well Do I Know My Neighbor? The Exigency of Israel and the HolocaustAfterword. Ethics versus History: Is There Still an Ought in Our Remembrance?The Memory of InjusticeNobody Has to RememberWhy Should I Care?NotesIndex

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