The Forgiveness to Come: The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical

by Peter Jason Banki

Overview

Examines the debate on forgiveness in relation to the Holocaust. Discusses Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower, Jean Ameìry's At the Mind's Limits, Vladimir Jankeìleìvitch's Forgiveness, Robert Antelme's The Human Race and Forgiving Doctor Mengele on Eva Mozes Kor in the light of Jacques Derrida's concept of forgiveness of the unforgivable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823278640
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	11/07/2017
Series:	Just Ideas
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Banki is Research Associate in Philosophy at Western Sydney University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: To Forgive the Unforgivable
1: The Survival of the Question: Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower
2: Reading Forgiveness in a Marrano Idiom: Jacques Derrida
3: Crimes against Humanity or the Phantasm of “we, men”
4: A Hyper-Ethics of Irreconcilable Contradictions: Vladimir Jankélévitch
Conclusion: Forgiveness as a Jewish Joke

Epilogue: “What an Art of Living!”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited

Editorial Reviews

An extremely well-written, subtle, and moving meditation on the impasses of forgiveness in the face of the Holocaust and other unforgivable crimes, challenging our notions of what it means to be a person and whether there is a universal order of ​human beings that might allow perpetrator and victim to recognize in each other a shared humanity. Banki’s book is an excellent study—supple in its interpretations, limpid in its style—and will be of great interest to students and scholars of literature, political science, philosophy, history, and anthropology.

Johns Hopkins University - Rochelle Tobias

"Forgiveness may be implied in a certain Jewish humor that offers the possibility of forgiveness as its impossibility. Peter Banki makes me think that that a humanity capable of crimes against humanity is in just such a double bind with itself."—Jean-Luc Nancy

"An extremely well-written, subtle, and moving meditation on the impasses of forgiveness in the face of the Holocaust and other unforgivable crimes, challenging our notions of what it means to be a person and whether there is a universal order of human beings that might allow perpetrator and victim to recognize in each other a shared humanity. Banki's book is an excellent study—supple in its interpretations, limpid in its style—and will be of great interest to students and scholars of literature, political science, philosophy, history, and anthropology."—Rochelle Tobias, Johns Hopkins University

From the Publisher

Forgiveness may be implied in a certain Jewish humor that offers the possibility of forgiveness as its impossibility. Peter Banki makes me think that that a humanity capable of crimes against humanity is in just such a double bind with itself.

Jean-Luc Nancy