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The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world "after Jews".
List of contents
Preface; 1. The Chosen Ones (St. Paul); 2. The Secret of the Scapegoat (René Girard); 3. Making a Jew into a Christian (William Shakespeare); 4. There Should Be Time No Longer (D. H. Lawrence); 5. To Look Upon His Face and Yet Not Die (Jacob Taubes); 6. Ex oriente lux? (Joseph Roth, Primo Levi); 7. Pilloried by Necessity (Jean Améry); 8. German Rubble (W. G. Sebald); 9. Long Live! (K. K. Baczy¿ski); 10. The Living against the Dead (Czes¿aw Mi¿osz); 11. The Child of War (Friedrich Nietzsche, Krzysztof Michalski); 12. Plenty Coups and the End of the World (Jonathan Lear); 13. They Refugees (Hannah Arendt); 14. The Remainder of Christianity (Vasily Rozanov, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger); Bibliography; Index of Persons.
About the author
Piotr Nowak is Professor of Philosophy at the Bialystok University in Poland, deputy editor¿in¿chief of the annual "Kronos. Philosophical Journal", and the author of
The Ancients and Shakespeare on Time: Some Remarks on the War of Generations (2014). He published among others in "Philosophy and Literature" (
Gods and Children: Shakespeare Reads The Prince, vol. 41, no. 1A, 2017).
Summary
The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”.
