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Interrupting Auschwitz - Art, Religion, Philosophy (Paperback, New edition)
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Interrupting Auschwitz - Art, Religion, Philosophy (Paperback, New edition)
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Hitler, wrote Theodor Adorno, imposed "a new categorical imperative
on humankind...to arrange thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz
will not repeat itself." Interrupting Auschwitz argues that what
gives this imperative its philosophical force and ethical urgency
is the very impossibility of fulfilling it. But rather than being
cause for despair, this failure offers a renewed conception of the
tasks of thought and action. Precisely because the imperative
cannot be fulfilled, it places thought in a state of perpetual
incompletion, whereby our responsibility is never at an end and
redemption is always interrupted. Josh Cohen argues that both
Adorno's own writings on art after Auschwitz and Emmanuel Levinas'
interpretations of Judaism reveal both thinkers as impelled by this
logic of interruption, by a passionate refusal to bring thought to
a point of completion. The analysis of their motifs of art and
religion are brought together in a final chapter on the
poet-philosopher Edmond Jabes.
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