Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust / / edited by Dan Stone.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 108
• TeilnehmendeR: Stone, Dan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 108.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and literature address the way the Holocaust had led to the reconceptualization of the humanities. The scholarly approaches of Pierre Klossowski, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot are examined critically, and the volume explores such poignant topics as violence, evil, and monuments.

Table of Contents

EDITORIAL FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- ONE ANDREW BENJAMIN: Interrupting Confession, Resisting Absolution: Monuments after the Holocaust -- TWO RAVIT REICHMAN: The Myth of Old Forms: On the Unknowable and Representation -- THREE IAN JAMES: Pierre Klossowski: The Suspended Self -- FOUR DAN STONE: Georges Bataille and the Interpretation of the Holocaust -- FIVE SARA GUYER: Being-Destroyed: Anthropomorphizing L'espèce humaine -- SIX RICHARD STAMP: " Do Not Forget the Very Thing that Will Make You Lose Your Memory" : Blanchot's " Désastre " and the Holocaust -- SEVEN HEIDRUN FRIESE: Silence - Voice - Representation -- EIGHT MICHAL BEN-NAFTALI: Lyotard's and Derrida's "Catastrophist Phenomenology" -- NINE SIMON SPARKS: The Experience of Evil: Kant and Nancy -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX.