ABSTRACT
This chapter expands on the form of the problem of the tension between enormity and complexity, whilst paying particular attention to establishing the presence and parameters of moral complexity within both individual moral experiences of the Holocaust and the Holocaust itself as a defining event. The discussion of responsibility to date, from Levi to Walker to Gowans is intended to show how the various ways of understanding responsibility contributes to an account of moral life, characterized by a tension between moral complexity and moral enormity. Moral enormity, for instance, appears to imply straightforward accounts of the way moral life is assessed. Moral complexity, on the other hand, suggests that moral life is anything but amenable to straightforward ways of understanding what is at issue. As a way of visualizing the relationship between moral complexity and responsibility the author proposes the idea of a 'weave' as a means of structuring the various understandings of responsibility.
