'Interrupting Auschwitz' examines a central event in European thought and history.
Through detailed readings of Adorno, Levinas and Jab s, the book explores the development of redemptive thought, through Kant, Hegel, Mallarme, Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Blanchot, Celan, Nancy, Agamben and Lacoue-Labarthe. Art and religion become privileged sites of thought because they open up the possibility of non-reconciliatory thinking, a thinking that refuses definition in terms of any redemptive horizon.
Bringing together key debates in Holocaust Studies, philosophy and cultural theory, 'Interrupting Auschwitz' is an extraordinary analysis of ethics and the nature of redemption and of the centrality of art and religion to contemporary thought.
