Spirit in Ashes [Book Review]

The Owl of Minerva 21 (1):96-99 (1989)
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Abstract

This provocative book questions whether contemporary humanity can face death in any of the traditional ways, since the events of our century have created a new selfhood and a new death. Wyschogrod describes the “death event” and the “death world”; these refer to the Holocaust but also to the destructive bombings in World War II, and most importantly to the death-in-life of the Nazi and Stalinist concentration and labor camps. Her thesis is

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David Kolb
Bates College

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