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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levi, Neil
• Adorno, Theodor W
• Agamben, Giorgio
• Amery, Jean
• Arendt, Hannah
• Bartov, Omer
• Bataille, Georges
• Baudrillard, Jean
• Bauer, Yehuda
• Bauman, Zygmunt
• Benjamin, Walter
• Bernstein, Michael Andre\x27
• Blanchot, Maurice
• Bock, Gisela
• Bos, Pascale Rachel
• Browning, Christopher
• Burke, Kenneth
• Caruth, Cathy
• Cohen, Arthur A
• Delbo, Charlotte
• Derrida, Jacques
• Diner, Dan
• Eackenheim, Emil L
• Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven
• Felman, Shoshana

Titel

The Holocaust : Theoretical Readings

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2022]

Link zum Volltext

• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)
• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)

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• Cover

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable volume.This agenda-setting reader brings together both classic and new theoretical writings. Wide in its thematic scope, it covers such vital questions as:Authenticity and experienceMemory and traumaHistoriography and the philosophy of historyFascism and Nazi antisemitismRepresentation and identity formationRace, gender and genocideThe implications of the Holocaust for theories of the unconscious, ethics, politics and aestheticsThe readings, which are fully contextualised by a general introduction, section introductions and bibliographical notes, represent the work of many influential writers and theorists, including Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Cathy Caruth, Saul Friedlander, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Theodor Adorno, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Gilroy, Jacques Derrida, Hayden White and Shoshana Felman