Publisher's Synopsis
"Think of the disaster" is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the period of Hitler's rule. Thinking of the disaster means understanding why the Shoah was able to occur in civilized Europe. It means thinking of a possibility for philosophy's future. Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Emmanuel Levinas had the courage, the strength and the perception to think about what had happened.