The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings
Edited by Neil Levi
and Michael Rothberg
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| Acknowledgements |
xi |
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| Publisher’s
Acknowledgements |
xiii |
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| About this book |
xix |
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| General
Introduction |
1 |
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| PART 1: |
THEORY AND EXPERIENCE |
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| Introduction |
25 |
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| 1 The Drowned and
the Saved Primo Levi |
29 |
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| 2 Resentments’ Jean Améry |
36 |
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| 3 Days and Memory Charlotte Delbo |
45 |
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| 4 ‘The Camps’ Ruth Kluger |
50 |
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| PART 2: | HISTORICIZING THE
HOLOCAUST? |
|
| Introduction |
59 |
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| 5 ‘On the Public Use
of History’ Jürgen Habermas |
63 |
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| 6 ‘The “Final
Solution”: On the Unease in Historical Interpretation Saul Friedlander |
69 |
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| 7 ‘Historical
Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage’ Dan Diner |
75 |
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| 8 ‘The Uniqueness
and Normality of the Holocaust’ Zygmunt Bauman |
82 |
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| 9 ‘The European
Imagination in the Age of Total War’ Omer Bartov |
89 |
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| 10 The Origins of
the Nazi Genocide Henry Friedlander |
96 |
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| PART 3: | NAZI CULTURE, FACISM, AND
ANTISEMITISM |
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| Introduction
|
103 |
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| 11 ‘The
Rhetoric of Hitler’s “Battle”’ Kenneth Burke |
107 |
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| 12 The
Psychological Structure of Fascism’ Georges Bataille |
113 |
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| 13
‘Elements of Anti-Semitism’ Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno |
121 |
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| 14 ‘The
Fiction of the Political’ Philippe Lacoue- Labarthe |
127 |
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| 15
‘Anti-Semitism and National Socialism’
Moishe Postone |
132 |
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| 16
‘Ordinary Men’ Chirostopher Browning |
140 |
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| PART 4: | RACE, GENDER, AND GENOCIDE |
|
| Introduction |
147 |
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| 17
‘Floods, Bodies, History’ Klaus Theweleit |
151 |
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| 18 ‘Racism and
Sexism in Nazi Germany’ Gisela Bock |
160 |
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| 19 ‘The
Unethical and Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust’ Joan Ringelheim |
169 |
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| 20
‘Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference’ Pascale Rachel Bos |
178 |
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| PART 5: | PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA,
AND MEMORY |
|
| Introduction
|
189 |
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| 21 ‘Trauma and
Experience’ Cathy Caruth |
192 |
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| 22 ‘Trauma, Absence,
Loss’ Dominick LaCapra |
199 |
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| 23 ‘Trauma and
Transference’ Saul Friedlander |
206 |
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| 24 ‘History Beyond
the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation Of Trauma’ Eric L. Santner |
214 |
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| 25 ‘Bearing Witness
or the Vicissitudes of Listening’ Dori Lamb |
221 |
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| PART 6: | QUESTIONS OF RELIGION,
ETHICS, AND JUSTICE |
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| Introduction |
229 |
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| 26 ‘Thinking the Tremendum’ Arthur A. Cohen |
233 |
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| 27 ‘To Mend the
World’ Emil L. Fackenheim |
237 |
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| 28 ‘Ethics and
Spirit’ Emmanuel Levinas |
241 |
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| 29 Eichmann in
Jerusalem Hannah Arendt |
246 |
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| 30 ‘What is a
Camp?’ Giorgio Agamben |
252 |
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| 31 The Differend Jean-François Lyotard |
257 |
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| 32 ‘New
political Theology – Out of Holocaust and Liberation’ Gillian Rose |
263 |
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| PART 7: | LITERATURE AND CULTURE
AFTER AUSCHWITZ |
|
| Introduction |
273 |
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| 33 ‘Theses on
the Philosophy of History’ Walter Benjamin |
277 |
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| 34 ‘Cultural
Criticism and Society’ Theodor Adorno |
280 |
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| 35 ‘Meditations on
Metaphysics’ Theodor Adorno |
282 |
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| 36 ‘Writing and the
Holocaust’ Irving Howe |
288 |
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| 37
‘Non-Philosophical Amazement – Writing in Amazement: Benjamin’s Position in the Aftermath of the Holocaust’ Sigrid Weigel |
291 |
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| 38
The Writing of the Disaster Maurice Balnchot |
299 |
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| 39
‘Shibboleth’ Jacques Derrida |
306 |
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| 40 ‘Language and Culture
after the Holocaust’ Geoffrey H. Hartman |
313 |
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| 41 ‘Representing Auschwitz’ Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi |
318 |
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| PART 8: | MODES OF NARRATION |
|
| Introduction |
325 |
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| 42 ‘The Moral Space
of Figurative Discourse’ Berel Lang |
329 |
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| 43 ‘Writing the Holocaust’ James E. Young |
335 |
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| 44 ‘The Modernist Event’ Hayden White |
339 |
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| 45 ‘Against Foreshadowing’ Michael André Bernstein |
346 |
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| 46 ‘Deep Memory: The
Buried Self’ Lawrence L. Langer |
354 |
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| 47 ‘The Return of the
Voice: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’ Shoshana Felman |
360 |
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| PART 9: | RETHINKING VISUAL CULTURE |
|
| Introduction
|
371 |
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| 48 Reflections of
Nazism Saul Friedlander |
375 |
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| 49 ‘Holocaust’ Jean Baudrillard |
380 |
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| 50 ‘Anslem Kiefer: the
Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth’ Andreas Huyssen |
383 |
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| 51 ‘The Aesthetic
Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable: Notes on Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’ Gertrud Koch |
389 |
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| 52 ‘In Plain Sight’ Lilliane Weissberg |
396 |
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| PART 10: | LATECOMERS: NEGATIVE
SYMBIOSIS, POSTMEMORY, AND COUNTERMEMORY |
|
| Introduction |
407 |
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| 53 ‘Memory Shot Through
with Holes’ Henri Raczymow |
410 |
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| 54 ‘Mourning and
Postmemory’ Marianne Hirsch |
416 |
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| 56 ‘The Countermonument:
Memory Against Itself in Germany’ James E. Young |
431 |
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| PART 11: | UNIQUENESS, COMPARISON,
AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY |
|
| Introduction |
441 |
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| 57 ‘Two Kinds of
Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust’ Alan Milchman and Ala Roesenberg |
444 |
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| 58 ‘What Was the
Holocaust?’ Yehuda Bauer |
451 |
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| 59 The Black Atlantic Paul Gilroy |
455 |
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| 60 ‘Thinking about
Genocide’ Mahmood Mamdani |
461 |
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| 61 ‘Dare to Compare:
Americanizing the Holocaust’ Lilian Friedberg |
468 |
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| The Holocaust in American
Life Peter Novick |
474 |
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| Index |
481 |
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