The Holocaust : : Theoretical Readings / / Neil Levi, Michael Rothberg.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Publisher’s Acknowledgements
  • About this book
  • General Introduction
  • PART I: THEORY AND EXPERIENCE
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Drowned and the Saved
  • 2 ‘Resentments’
  • 3 Days and Memory
  • 4 ‘The Camps’
  • PART II: HISTORICIZING THE HOLOCAUST?
  • Introduction
  • 5 ‘On the Public Use of History’
  • 6 ‘The “ Final Solution” : On the Unease in Historical Interpretation
  • 7 ‘Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage’
  • 8 ‘The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust’
  • 9 ‘The European Imagination in the Age of Total War’
  • 10 The Origins of the Nazi Genocide
  • PART III: NAZI CULTURE, FASCISM, AND ANTISEMITISM
  • Introduction
  • 11 ‘The Rhetoric of Hitler’s “ Battle” ’
  • 12 ‘The Psychological Structure of Fascism’
  • 13 ‘Elements of Anti-Semitism’
  • 14 ‘The Fiction of the Political’
  • 15 ‘Anti-Semitism and National Socialism’
  • 16 ‘Ordinary Men’
  • PART IV: RACE, GENDER, AND GENOCIDE
  • Introduction
  • 17 ‘Floods, Bodies, History’
  • 18 ‘Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany’
  • 19 ‘The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust’
  • 20 ‘Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference’
  • PART V: PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA, AND MEMORY
  • Introduction
  • 21 ‘Trauma and Experience’
  • 22 ‘Trauma, Absence, Loss’
  • 23 ‘Trauma and Transference’
  • 24 ‘History Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma’
  • 25 ‘Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening’
  • PART VI: QUESTIONS OF RELIGION, ETHICS, AND JUSTICE
  • Introduction
  • 26 ‘Thinking the Tremendum’
  • 27 ‘To Mend the World’
  • 28 ‘Ethics and Spirit’
  • 29 Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • 30 ‘What is a Camp?’
  • 31 The Differend
  • 32 ‘New Political Theology - Out of Holocaust and Liberation’
  • PART VII: LITERATURE AND CULTURE AFTER AUSCHWITZ
  • Introduction
  • 33 ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’
  • 34 ‘Cultural Criticism and Society’
  • 35 ‘Meditations on Metaphysic
  • 36 ‘Writing and the Holocaust’
  • 37 ‘Non-Philosophical Amazement - Writing in Amazement: Benjamin’s Position in the Aftermath of the Holocaust’
  • 38 The Writing of the Disaster
  • 39 ‘Shibboleth’
  • 40 ‘Language and Culture after the Holocaust’
  • 41 ‘Representing Auschwitz’
  • PART VIII: MODES OF NARRATION
  • Introduction
  • 42 ‘The Moral Space of Figurative Discourse’
  • 43 ‘Writing the Holocaust’
  • 44 ‘The Modernist Event’
  • 45 ‘Against Foreshadowing’
  • 46 ‘Deep Memory: The Buried Self’
  • 47 ‘The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’
  • PART IX: RETHINKING VISUAL CULTURE
  • Introduction
  • 48 Reflections of Nazism
  • 49 ‘Holocaust’
  • 50 ‘Anselm Kiefer: the Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth’
  • 51 ‘The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable: Notes on Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’
  • 52 ‘In Plain Sight’
  • PART X: LATECOMERS: NEGATIVE SYMBIOSIS, POSTMEMORY, AND COUNTERMEMORY
  • Introduction
  • 53 ‘Memory Shot Through with Holes’
  • 54 ‘Mourning and Postmemory’
  • 55 ‘Negative Symbiosis: Germans and Jews after Auschwitz’
  • 56 ‘The Countermonument: Memory Against Itself in Germany’
  • PART XI: UNIQUENESS, COMPARISON, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
  • Introduction
  • 57 ‘Two Kinds of Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust’
  • 58 ‘What Was the Holocaust?’
  • 59 The Black Atlantic
  • 60 ‘Thinking about Genocide’
  • 61 ‘Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust’
  • 62 The Holocaust in American Life
  • Index