The Jewish Studies Program would like to spotlight Dr. Nicholas De Warren for his recent contribution to the project The Holocaust: Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience. Dr. De Warren’s contribution, ‘Evil and the Holocaust,’ and the project as a whole can be found here: https://psu.pb.unizin.org/holocaust3rs/
When asked what Dr. De Warren hoped to accomplish with this project he stated: “Remembrance is always an active engagement of telling and re-telling what happened in the past so as to make the past something that remains present for us, and in the case of the Holocaust, something that remains troubling for us. With my contribution on how different philosophers reflected on the nature of evil after the Holocaust, I wanted to identify the complex set of issues that this question raises as well as provide students with different concepts and vocabularies with which to think what seems unthinkable.”
In the fall, Dr. De Warren will be teaching JST/PHIL/RLST 478 ‘Ethics after the Holocaust’, a course in which Dr. De Warren states “the question of evil is central.” He has also written a book entitled, “Original Forgiveness” in which he examines the impossibility or possibility of forgiveness with the holocaust. “Original Forgiveness” can be found and purchased here: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/…/original-forgiveness/