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In the Shadow of Birkenau

其他書名	Ethical Dilemmas During and After the Holocaust
出版	United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, 2005
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o2HzAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Elie Wiesel said that all ethical values "must be revised in the shadow of Birkenau." According to Primo Levi, the Holocaust leaves ethics grey-zoned, i.e. makes it dysfunctional, losing its appeal. For the French philosopher Sarah Kofman, the Holocaust put into question the essence of human community (which, after all, can unite victims and perpetrators) and demands a "new humanism." Notes Michael Berenbaum's theory that the Holocaust has become a "negative absolute, " since everyone agrees that it was "wrong." However, the Holocaust signifies an immense human failure. It did ethics harm by showing how ethical teachings could be overridden, rendered dysfunctional, or even subverted to serve the interests of genocide.