THE HOLOCAUST: THEORETICAL READINGS

Abstract

Acknowledgements -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- About this book -- General introduction -- Pt. I. Theory and experience -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. The drowned and the saved / Primo Levi -- Ch. 2. Resentments / Jean Amery -- Ch. 3. Days and memory / Charlotte Delbo -- Ch. 4. The camps / Ruth Kluger -- Pt. II. Historicizing the Holocaust? -- Introduction -- Ch. 5. On the public use of history / Jurgen Habermas -- Ch. 6. The "Final Solution": on the unease in historical interpretation / Saul Friedlander -- Ch. 7. Historical understanding and counterrationality: the Judenrat as epistemological vantage / Dan Diner -- Ch. 8. The uniqueness and normality of the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman -- Ch. 9. The European imagination in the age of total war / Omer Bartov -- Ch. 10. The origins of the Nazi genocide / Henry Friedlander -- Pt. III. Nazi culture, fascism, and antisemitism -- Introduction -- Ch. 11. The rhetoric of Hitler's "battle" / Kenneth Burke -- Ch. 12. The psychological structure of fascism / Georges Bataille -- Ch. 13. Elements of anti-Semitism / Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno -- Ch. 14. The fiction of the political / Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe -- Ch. 15. Anti-Semitism and national socialism / Moishe Postone -- Ch. 16. Ordinary men / Christopher Browning -- Pt. IV. Race, gender, and genocide -- Introduction -- Ch. 17. Floods, bodies, history / Klaus Theweleit - - Ch. 18. Racism and sexism in Nazi Germany / Gisela Bock -- Ch. 19. The unethical and the unspeakable: women and the Holocaust / Joan Ringelheim -- Ch. 20. Women and the Holocaust: analyzing gender difference / Pascale Rachel Bos -- Pt. V. Psychoanalysis, trauma, and memory -- Introduction -- Ch. 21. Trauma and experience / Cathy Caruth -- Ch. 22. Trauma, absence, loss / Dominick LaCapra -- Ch. 23. Trauma and transference / Saul Friedlander -- Ch. 24. History beyond the pleasure principle: some thoughts on the representation of trauma / Eric L. Santner -- Ch. 25. Bearing witness or the vicissitudes of listening / Dori Laub -- Pt. VI. Questions of religion, ethics, and justice -- Introduction -- Ch. 26. Thinking the tremendum / Arthur A. Cohen -- Ch. 27. To mend the world / Emil L. Fackenheim -- Ch. 28. Ethics and spirit / Emmanuel Levinas -- Ch. 29. Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt -- Ch. 30. What is a camp? / Giorgio Agamben -- Ch. 31. The differend / Jean- Francois Lyotard -- Ch. 32. New political theology: out of Holocaust and liberation / Gillian Rose -- Pt. VII. Literature and culture after Auschwitz -- Introduction -- Ch. 33. Theses on the philosophy of history / Walter Benjamin -- Ch. 34. Cultural criticism and society / Theodor W. Adorno -- Ch. 35. Meditations on metaphysics / Theodor W. Adorno -- Ch. 36. Writing and the Holocaust / Irving Howe -- Ch. 37. Non-philosophical amazement: writing in amazement: Benjamin's position in the aftermath of the Holocaust / Sigrid Weigel -- Ch. 38. The writing of the disaster / Maurice Blanchot -- Ch. 39. Shibboleth / Jacques Derrida -- Ch. 40. Language and culture after the Holocaust / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- Ch. 41. Representing Auschwitz / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- Pt. VIII. Modes of narration -- Introduction -- Ch. 42. The moral space of figurative discourse / Berel Lang -- Ch. 43. Writing the Holocaust / James E. Young -- Ch. 44. The modernist event / Hayden White - - Ch. 45. Against foreshadowing / Michael Andre Bernstein -- Ch. 46. Deep memory: the buried self / Lawrence L. Langer -- Ch. 47. The return of the voice: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Shoshana Felman -- Pt. IX. Rethinking visual culture -- Introduction -- Ch. 48. Reflections of Nazism / Saul Friedlander -- Ch. 49. Holocaust / Jean Baudrillard -- Ch. 50. Anselm Kiefer: the terror of history, the temptation of myth / Andreas Huyssen -- Ch. 51. The aesthetic transformation of the image of the unimaginable: notes on Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Gertrud Koch -- Ch. 52. In plain sight / Lilliane Weissberg -- Pt. X. Latecomers: negative symbiosis, postmemory, and countermemory -- Introduction -- Ch. 53. Memory shot through with holes / Henri Raczymow -- Ch. 54. Mourning and postmemory / Marianne Hirsch -- Ch. 55. Negative symbiosis: Germans and Jews after Auschwitz / Dan Diner -- Ch. 56. The countermonument: memory against itself in Germany / James E. Young -- Pt. XI. Uniqueness, Comparison, and the politics of memory -- Introduction -- Ch. 57. Two kinds of uniqueness: the universal aspects of the Holocaust / Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg -- Ch. 58. What was the Holocaust? / Yehuda Bauer -- Ch. 59. The black Atlantic / Paul Gilroy -- Ch. 60. Thinking about genocide / Mahmood Mamdani -- Ch. 61. Dare to compare: Americanizing the Holocaust / Lilian Friedberg -- Ch. 62. The Holocaust in American life / Peter Novick -- Index