Dialogical Memory and Immemorial Poetics: The Ethical Imperatives of Holocaust Literature
Drawing from Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical ethics and Paul Celan’s dialogical poetics, this article interrogates the impossible memorial and ethical demands that literary responses to the Holocaust place upon their readers. While Levinas reveals our position as summoned to radical responsibility,...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/1/42 |