Probing the limits of representation : Nazism and the "Final Solution"

Probing the limits of representation : Nazism and the "Final Solution" / edited by Saul Friedlander

Can the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, twenty scholars probe the moral, epistemological, and aesthetic limits of an account or...

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Kolejni autorzy:	Friedländer, Saul (Redaktor)
Format:	Książka
Język:	English
Wydane:	Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Press, 1992
Hasła przedmiotowe:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature Konferenzschrift > 1990 > Los Angeles, Calif.
Zapisy:	19 zapisów
Dostęp online:	Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. "The grave in the air" : unbound metaphors in post-Holocaust poetry

2. Habermas, enlightenment, and antisemitism

3. Whose story is it, anyway? : Ideology and psychology in the representation of the Shoah in Israeli literature

4. Between image and phrase : progressive history and the "Final Solution" as dispossession

5. History beyond the pleasure principle : some thoughts on the representation of trauma

6. The book of the destruction

7. Translating Paul Celan's "Todesfuge" : rhythm and repetition as metaphor

8. Holocaust and the end of history : postmodern historiography in cinema

9. History, counterhistory, and narrative

10. Historical understanding and counterrationality : the Judenrat as epistemological vantage

11. Representing the Holocaust : reflections on the Historians' debate

12. The dialectics of unspeakability : language, silence, and the narratives of desubjectification

13. Historical emplotment and the problem of truth

14. On emplotment : two kinds of ruin

15. Science, modernity, and the "Final Solution"

16. German memory, judicial interrogation, and historical reconstruction : writing perpetrator history from postwar testimony

17. Of plots, witnesses, and judgments

18. Just one witness

19. The representation of limits