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Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Editor's Introduction -- THE DIFFEREND THAT IS GLOBAL: CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY AS A CHALLENGE TO HUMAN RIGHTS /Bettina G. Bergo -- THE MEANNESS IS [NOT ENTIRELY] IN THE SYSTEM /Thomas R. Flynn -- SCIENCE AND HUMAN NATURE: HOW TO GO FROM NATURE TO ETHICS /Dorothea Olkowski -- TO REVERSE THE IRREVERSIBLE: ON TIME DISORDER IN THE WORK OF JEAN AMÉRY /Roy Ben Shai -- FINDING MAN IN DER MUSELMANN: THE USE and ABUSE OF THE WALKING DEAD /Lissa Skitolsky -- OPERATION BARBAROSSA AS GENOCIDAL WARFARE /André Mineau -- FEMINIST PHILOSOPHICAL INTERVENTION IN GENOCIDE /Natalie Nenadic -- SHOOTING THE UNIMAGINABLE: ON THE RECEPTION OF FOUR SHOAH PHOTOGRAPHS /Marc De Kesel -- ROUSSEAU, PLATO, AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY'S ANTI-GENOCIDAL STRAIN /Henry C. Theriault -- DISCONCERTING FORMS: UNEASINESS AND THE DISLOCATION OF HOLOCAUST CINEMA /Todd Kesselman -- ANIMAL TRACINGS IN ADORNO'S REFLECTIONS ON GENOCIDAL MACHINES /Erik M. Vogt -- THE TERROR OF ANIMALITY: ARENDT, BADIOU, SARTRE /Ryan Crawford -- GENOCIDE IN THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE /James R. Watson -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.

The reference of the postmodern task of thinking is Auschwitz, the abyss and discontinuity separating us from the world of our ancestors. As inhabitants of Planet Auschwitz our point of reference lacks all transcendental warrants; it is not a non-referable reference which constitutes the abyss we must enter, endure, and in which our intellectual and cultural tradition must be transformed. The private/public transformations which constitute the texts of this book attempt to depart from the dystopic individuality and public life resulting from business-as-usual after Auschwitz. The three parts of the book are progressive reworkings of traditional metaphysics as adapted and modified by a modernism that refuses to grapple with its complicity. It is precisely that complicity which postmodern thinking takes up in its attempt to signify otherwise than the easy modernist translations and images of tradition. Thus it is a series of uneasy images imaging otherwise but never apart from modernity that take us away from complicity toward a transformed tradition. The uneasy images of this book are photogrammic combinations of photographs and texts, mutual supplements, pulling tradition through the Event against the persistent and murderous forces of contemporary idolatry and repression