Table of Contents

Preface vii

Chapter 1 Dignity in the Shadow Side of Human Experience 1

Set Apart as Pariahs 5

Wrenching Familial Separations 8

The Humiliation of Deprivations 11

The Particularity of Women's Suffering 16

The Brutality of Oppressors 18

The Agony of Nightmarish Transports 20

The Shame of One's Own Filth 26

Outrage at Degradation 29

Bearing Witness: A Sign of Human Dignity 32

A Common Humanity 36

Chapter 2 Human Dignity: The Glory of Humanity 39

The Human Being before God 40

Human Dignity Defined 43

The Human Face and Dignity 47

The Sin of Defacement 50

Chapter 3 Anti-Semitism and Black Antipathy: Early Patterns of Dehumanization 55

Anti-Semitism before the Enlightenment 56

Black Antipathy and Slavery before the Enlightenment 60

Patterns of Dehumanization 64

Chapter 4 Racism and Anti-Semitism in Modernity 67

The Age of Reason 69

Humanity Comes of Age 71

The Autonomous Human 72

A Fatal Paradox of Modernity 73

White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism as Forms of Racism 80

Communal Defacement as a Blight on Modernity 83

Chapter 5 White Supremacy and Racial Anti-Semitism: Ideologies of Death 85

Racialism: A Rival "Faith" 94

The Plight of African Americans and the Ideology of White Supremacy 99

Jews of Europe and the Ideology of German Anti-Semitism, 1933-1945 103

Chapter 6 Human Dignity and Defacement as Theo-Political Realities 109

Notes 117

Bibliography 139

Index 145