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TY - JOUR
T1 - From Auschwitz to Jerusalem to Gaza
T2 - ethics for the want of law
AU - Seymour, David M.
PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - This essay emerges from a series of reflections on the presence of “ethical” narratives and images of the Holocaust in the recent debates and demonstrations around the recent conflict in Gaza. I argue that the lack of measure and violence of these narratives which are now turned onto the descendants of the Holocaust, arise as a consequence of contemporary theories of the Holocaust that eschew the possibility of legal reflection, legal judgement and legal justice. I conclude with a discussion of Hannah Arendt’s attempts to rethink law in the wake of the Holocaust, a law that does not exceed its limited, but clearly defined, area of competence.
AB - This essay emerges from a series of reflections on the presence of “ethical” narratives and images of the Holocaust in the recent debates and demonstrations around the recent conflict in Gaza. I argue that the lack of measure and violence of these narratives which are now turned onto the descendants of the Holocaust, arise as a consequence of contemporary theories of the Holocaust that eschew the possibility of legal reflection, legal judgement and legal justice. I conclude with a discussion of Hannah Arendt’s attempts to rethink law in the wake of the Holocaust, a law that does not exceed its limited, but clearly defined, area of competence.
KW - antisemitism
KW - ethics
KW - Holocaust
KW - critical theory
KW - Israel
KW - Gaza
KW - Arendt
KW - Bauman
KW - Lyotard
U2 - 10.1080/17449626.2010.494366
DO - 10.1080/17449626.2010.494366
M3 - Journal article
VL - 6
SP - 205
EP - 215
JO - Journal of Global Ethics
JF - Journal of Global Ethics
SN - 1744-9626
IS - 2
ER -