Thinking the Unthinkable Meanings of the Holocaust

includes index and biblioraphy

Part 1 why did it happen ? Why ? towards a theory of the holocaust ...25 Religion and the origins of the death camps : Apsychoanalytic interpertation ...46 Murderous objectivity : Reflections on marxism and the holocaust ...64 Adolf hitler`s childhood : From hidden to manifest horror ...88 Part II The agents: Reflections on victims and murderers Us and them ...109 The right way to act : Indicting the victims ...126 Thoughts about women and the holocaust ...141 Different horrors, same hell women remembering the hologaust ...150 The anti-semite ...167 Doubling : The faustian bargain ...180 Part III The holocaust and spiritual life "The death of my father" and" yom kippur " ...199 Authenticity of being ...209 Jewish existence after the holocaust ...240 The meaning of this hour ...271 Part IV Two central moral questions : Nazi guilt and jewish resistance Postscript to eichmann in jerusalem ...277 On eichmann ...291 Measuring responsibility ...298 Jews, tradition and resistance ...315 The concept of resistance : Jewish resistance during the holocaust ...327 Part V Present and future questions : hope ,survivors, and memory The holocaust and the human condition ...347 The holocaust - One generation after ...373 Responses to the holocaust ...390 The memory of the offense ...400 The holocaust and the imperative to remember ...407 Remembrance and resistance ...434