Ethics, identity, and antifundamental fundamentalism: Holocaust memory in the global age (a cultural-political introduction)

Unravels the tensions between the Holocaust global memory's ethicopolitical dimensions and its 'Western' identity formation consequences. He contends that the Holocaust has become a foundational event, i.e. an event that embodies an age because it embodies a historical novum that serves as a moral and historical yardstick, as a measure of things human. The Holocaust supports discourses identified as late modernism such as recompense to victims, multiculturalism, human rights, and postmodernist relativism. As such the Holocaust has become an ethical, historical and cultural metaphor detached from its bearers and from its historical context in order to lay down universal cosmopolitan rules.