Postmodernism and the Holocaust / edited byAlan Milchman, Alan Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milchman, Alan, editor.

Rosenberg, Alan, editor.

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 72.

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1998.

Summary:

This book is the first sustained inquiry into the ways in which postmodern thinkers have grappled with the historical bases, implications, and methodological problems of the Holocaust. The book examines the thinking of Arendt, Levinas, Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida, all of whom have recognized the centrality of the Nazi genocide to the epoch in which we live. The essays written for this volume constitute a wide-ranging study of the efforts of postmodernism to articulate the Holocaust.

Contents:

Foreword

ONE Alan MILCHMAN and Alan ROSENBERG: Postmodernism and the Holocaust

TWO Gregory FRIED: Inhalt Unzulässig : Late Mail from Lodz - A Meditation on Time and Truth

THREE Wayne KLEIN: Truth's Turning: History and the Holocaust

FOUR Tracy FESSENDEN: Mark C

Taylor and the Limits of the Postmodern Imagination

FIVE Fabio CIARAMELLI: From Radical Evil to the Banality of Evil: Remarks on Kant and Arendt

SIX James R

WATSON: Levinas's Substitutions and Arendt's Concept of the Political: Becoming the Plurality Who We Are

SEVEN Robert John SCHEFFLER MANNING: Serious Ideas Rooted in Blood: Emmanuel Levinas's Analysis of the Philosophy of Hitlerism

EIGHT Tina CHANTER: Neither Materialism nor Idealism: Levinas's Third Way

NINE Helmut PEUKERT: Unconditional Responsibility for the Other: The Holocaust and the Thinking of Emmanuel Levinas

TEN Hugh MILLER: The Same Hatred of the Other Man, the Same Anti-Semitism

ELEVEN John LLEWELYN: sELection

TWELVE Alan MILCHMAN and Alan ROSENBERG: Mitchel Foucault, Auschwitz, and the Destruction of the Body

THIRTEEN John McCUMBER: The Holocaust as Master Rupture: Foucault, Fackenheim, and Postmodernity

FOURTEEN David Michael LEVIN: Cinders, Traces, Shadows on the Page: The Holocaust in Derrida's Writing

FIFTEEN Stephen David ROSS: Lyotard and Disaster: Forgetting the Good

SIXTEEN Charles MOLESWORTH: The Art of Memory: Anselm Kiefer and the Holocaust

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-49385-9

OCLC:

606998667

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004493858 DOI