The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings

Neil Levi; Michael Rothberg

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2003

The Holocaust

Theoretical Readings

Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474470230

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About this book

The first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable volume.

This agenda-setting reader brings together both classic and new theoretical writings. Wide in its thematic scope, it covers such vital questions as:

Authenticity and experience
Memory and trauma
Historiography and the philosophy of history
Fascism and Nazi antisemitism
Representation and identity formation
Race, gender and genocide
The implications of the Holocaust for theories of the unconscious, ethics, politics and aesthetics

The readings, which are fully contextualised by a general introduction, section introductions and bibliographical notes, represent the work of many influential writers and theorists, including Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Cathy Caruth, Saul Friedlander, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Theodor Adorno, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Gilroy, Jacques Derrida, Hayden White and Shoshana Felman.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Publisher’s Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
About this book Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
General Introduction Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: THEORY AND EXPERIENCE
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
1 The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2 ‘Resentments’ Jean Amery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3 Days and Memory Charlotte Delbo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4 ‘The Camps’ Ruth Kluger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
PART II: HISTORICIZING THE HOLOCAUST?
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5 ‘On the Public Use of History’ Jurgen Habermas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
6 ‘The “ Final Solution” : On the Unease in Historical Interpretation Saul Friedlander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
7 ‘Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage’ Dan Diner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
8 ‘The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust’ Zygmunt Bauman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
9 ‘The European Imagination in the Age of Total War’ Omer Bartov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
10 The Origins of the Nazi Genocide Henry Friedlander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
PART III: NAZI CULTURE, FASCISM, AND ANTISEMITISM
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
11 ‘The Rhetoric of Hitler’s “ Battle” ’ Kenneth Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
12 ‘The Psychological Structure of Fascism’ Georges Bataille Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
13 ‘Elements of Anti-Semitism’ Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
14 ‘The Fiction of the Political’ Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
15 ‘Anti-Semitism and National Socialism’ Moishe Postone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
16 ‘Ordinary Men’ Christopher Browning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
PART IV: RACE, GENDER, AND GENOCIDE
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
17 ‘Floods, Bodies, History’ Klaus Theweleit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
18 ‘Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany’ Gisela Bock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
19 ‘The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust’ Joan Ringelheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
20 ‘Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference’ Pascale Rachel Bos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
PART V: PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA, AND MEMORY
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
21 ‘Trauma and Experience’ Cathy Caruth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
22 ‘Trauma, Absence, Loss’ Dominick LaCapra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
23 ‘Trauma and Transference’ Saul Friedlander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
24 ‘History Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma’ Eric L. Santner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
25 ‘Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening’ Dori Laub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
PART VI: QUESTIONS OF RELIGION, ETHICS, AND JUSTICE
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
26 ‘Thinking the Tremendum’ Arthur A. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
27 ‘To Mend the World’ Emil L. Eackenheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
28 ‘Ethics and Spirit’ Emmanuel Levinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
29 Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
30 ‘What is a Camp?’ Giorgio Agamben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
31 The Differend Jean-Frangois Lyotard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
32 ‘New Political Theology - Out of Holocaust and Liberation’ Gillian Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
PART VII: LITERATURE AND CULTURE AFTER AUSCHWITZ
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
33 ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ Walter Benjamin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
34 ‘Cultural Criticism and Society’ Theodor W. Adorno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
35 ‘Meditations on Metaphysic Theodor W. Adorno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
36 ‘Writing and the Holocaust’ Irving Howe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
37 ‘Non-Philosophical Amazement - Writing in Amazement: Benjamin’s Position in the Aftermath of the Holocaust’ Sigrid Weigel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
38 The Writing of the Disaster Maurice Blanchot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
39 ‘Shibboleth’ Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
40 ‘Language and Culture after the Holocaust’ Geoffrey H. Hartman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
41 ‘Representing Auschwitz’ Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
PART VIII: MODES OF NARRATION
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
42 ‘The Moral Space of Figurative Discourse’ Berel Lang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
43 ‘Writing the Holocaust’ James E. Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
44 ‘The Modernist Event’ Hayden White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
45 ‘Against Foreshadowing’ Michael Andre' Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
46 ‘Deep Memory: The Buried Self’ Lawrence L. Langer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
47 ‘The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’ Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
PART IX: RETHINKING VISUAL CULTURE
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
48 Reflections of Nazism Saul Friedlander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
49 ‘Holocaust’ Jean Baudrillard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
50 ‘Anselm Kiefer: the Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth’ Andreas Huyssen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
51 ‘The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable: Notes on Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’ Gertrud Koch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
52 ‘In Plain Sight’ Lilliane Weissberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	396
PART X: LATECOMERS: NEGATIVE SYMBIOSIS, POSTMEMORY, AND COUNTERMEMORY
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53 ‘Memory Shot Through with Holes’ Henri Raczymow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	410
54 ‘Mourning and Postmemory’ Marianne Hirsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	416
55 ‘Negative Symbiosis: Germans and Jews after Auschwitz’ Dan Diner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
56 ‘The Countermonument: Memory Against Itself in Germany’ James E. Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
PART XI: UNIQUENESS, COMPARISON, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
57 ‘Two Kinds of Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust’ Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	444
58 ‘What Was the Holocaust?’ Yehuda Bauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
59 The Black Atlantic Raul Gilroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
60 ‘Thinking about Genocide’ Mahmood Mamdani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
61 ‘Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust’ Lilian Friedberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	468
62 The Holocaust in American Life Feter Novick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	474
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 528
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: June 15, 2003
ISBN: 9781474470230