rective to this moral partiality. Universalism now trumps particularism. But the danger here is watery sentimentalism: we feel good about feeling bad about the misfortunes of others....
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BOOKS Celebrating Torn Hashoah' Every year, I face the same dilemma when Yom Hashoah comes. What should I do on this day for remembering the Holocaust? Part of me says: "Forget it!" What good...
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sion. Perhaps it is Kohut's tie to ego structure of the,nuclear self? His...
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Confrontation with the masters SOMEWHERE-A MASTER Elie Wiesel Summit, $13.95, 221 pp. Jack Riemer THERE are those who write about Hasidism from the outside. And there are those who write about...
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WITH GOD IN HELL Eliezer Berkowitz Sanhedrin Press, Hebrew Pub., Co., $8.95, 166 pp. Jack Riemer SOME RECENT BOOKS about the Holocaust blame the victims - as if we could sit in judgment on them...
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a soldier desperately searching for his horse, a student .rushing to his death to prove he is, not a coward--thenA Time of Death becomes a poignant tribute to human dignity and perseverence. In...
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remembering others," Lewes was not Comtean Positivism to an English audi- cance too rare. Hock Guan Tjoa has as-...
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D i s c i p l i n e and Punish: The B i r t h of the PrJsom MICHEL FOUCAU, LT Translated by Alan Sheridan Pantheon, $10.95 [333 pp] W. $. DI PIERO Michel Fouoault is l~rolmbly the best known...
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diverse actions and become all things to all men. This universality made such abstractions useful not merely for American liberals but those of Europe as well. Hence its complexity and...
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Selections for Religious Booh Week CRITICS' CHOICES Charles Davis The religious book I read with the ' greatest pleasure last year was John Dominic Crossan's The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology...
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BOOKS i Growing up Catholic and Growing up catholic JOHN DRUSKA Aphrodite at Mid-Century CARYL RIVERS Doubleday, $6.95 Blood Due* DOTSON RADER Knopf, $6.95 Caryl Rivers' and Dotson...
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BOOK In defense of an urban anarchism The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life RICHARD SENNETT Knopf, $5.95 DOUGLASS McFERRAN Conventional urban planning has come on hard times...
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