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Holocaust: Theoretical Readings »
Authors: Neil Levi (Editor), Michael Rothberg
ISBN-13: 9780813533520, ISBN-10: 081353352X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Neil Levi
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Publisher's Acknowledgements | ||
| About this book | ||
| General Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The Drowned and the Saved | 29 |
| 2 | 'Resentments' | 36 |
| 3 | Days and Memory | 45 |
| 4 | 'The Camps' | 50 |
| 5 | 'On the Public Use of History' | 63 |
| 6 | 'The "Final Solution": On the Unease in Historical Interpretation' | 69 |
| 7 | 'Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage' | 75 |
| 8 | 'The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust' | 82 |
| 9 | 'The European Imagination in the Age of Total War' | 89 |
| 10 | The Origins of the Nazi Genocide | 96 |
| 11 | 'The Rhetoric of Hitler's "Battle"' | 107 |
| 12 | 'The Psychological Structure of Fascism' | 113 |
| 13 | 'Elements of Anti-Semitism' | 121 |
| 14 | 'The Fiction of the Poltical' | 127 |
| 15 | 'Anti-Semitism and National Socialism' | 132 |
| 16 | 'Ordinary Men' | 140 |
| 17 | 'Floods, Bodies, History' | 147 |
| 18 | 'Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany' | 151 |
| 19 | 'The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust' | 160 |
| 20 | 'Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference' | 169 |
| 21 | 'Trauma and Experience' | 192 |
| 22 | 'Trauma, Absence, Loss' | 199 |
| 23 | 'Trauma and Transference' | 206 |
| 24 | 'History Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma' | 214 |
| 25 | 'Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening' | 221 |
| 26 | 'Thinking the Tremendum' | 229 |
| 27 | 'To Mend the World' | 237 |
| 28 | 'Ethics and Spirit' | 241 |
| 29 | Eichmann in Jerusalem | 246 |
| 30 | 'What is a Camp?' | 252 |
| 31 | The Differend | 257 |
| 32 | 'New Political Theology - Out of Holocaust and Liberation' | 263 |
| 33 | 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' | 277 |
| 34 | 'Cultural Criticism and Society' | 280 |
| 35 | 'Meditations on Metaphysics' | 282 |
| 36 | 'Writing and the Holocaust' | 288 |
| 37 | 'Non-Philosophical Amazement - Writing in Amazement: Benjamin's Position in the Aftermath of the Holocaust' | 291 |
| 38 | The Writing of the Disaster | 299 |
| 39 | 'Shibboleth' | 306 |
| 40 | 'Language and Culture after the Holocaust' | 313 |
| 41 | 'Representing Auschwitz' | 318 |
| 42 | 'The Moral Space of Figurative Discourse' | 329 |
| 43 | 'Writing the Holocaust' | 335 |
| 44 | 'The Modernist Event' | 339 |
| 45 | 'Against Foreshadowing' | 346 |
| 46 | 'Deep Memory: The Buried Self' | 354 |
| 47 | 'The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah' | 360 |
| 48 | Reflections of Nazism | 375 |
| 49 | 'Holocaust' | 380 |
| 50 | 'Anselm Kiefer: the Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth' | 383 |
| 51 | 'The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable: Notes on Claude Lanzmann's Shoah' | 389 |
| 52 | 'In Plain Sight' | 396 |
| 53 | 'Memory Shot Through with Holes' | 410 |
| 54 | 'Mourning and Postmemory' | 416 |
| 55 | 'Negative Symbiosis: Germans and Jews after Auschwitz' | 423 |
| 56 | 'The Countermonument: Memory Against Itself in Germany' | 431 |
| 57 | 'Two Kinds of Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust' | 444 |
| 58 | 'What Was the Holocaust?' | 451 |
| 59 | The Black Atlantic | 455 |
| 60 | 'Thinking about Genocide' | 461 |
| 61 | 'Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust' | 468 |
| 62 | The Holocaust in American Life | 474 |
| Index | 481 |
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