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

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 sch...

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Superior document:Value Inquiry Book Series ; 108
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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
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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.