The Holocaust and the postmodern
رقم التسجيلة | 6875 |
نوع المادة | book |
ردمك | 9780199239375 |
رقم الطلب |
PN56.H55E24 |
المؤلف | Eaglestone, Robert |
العنوان | The Holocaust and the postmodern |
بيانات النشر | Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. |
الوصف المادي | 369. p |
المحتويات / النص |
I: Reading and the holocaust -- 'Not read and consumed in the same way as other books': identification and the genre of testimony -- Traces of experience: the texts of testimony -- 'Faithful and doubtful, near and far': memory, postmemory, and identity -- Holocaust reading: memory and identification in Holocaust fiction, 1990-2003 -- II: Holocaust metahistories -- Against historicism: history, memory, and truth -- 'Are footnotes less barbaric?': history, memory, and the truth of the Holocaust in the work of Saul Friedlan?der -- 'What constitutes a historical explanation": metahistory and the limits of historical explanation in the Goldhagen/Browning controversy -- The metahistory of denial: the Irving/Lipstady libel case and Holocaust denial -- Inexhaustible meaning, inextinguishable voices: Levinas and the Holocaust -- Cinders of philosophy, philosophy of cinders: Derrida and the trace of the Holocaust -- The limits of understanding: perpetrator philosophy and philosophical histories -- The postmodern, the Holocaust, and the limits of the human |
المستخلص |
Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism is a response to the Holocaust. He offers a range of new perspectives, including new ways of looking at testimony and at and recent Holocaust fiction; explores controversies in Holocaust history; looks at the importance of the Holocaust for recent philosophy; and asks what the Holocaust means for reason, ethics, and for being human. |
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520 | |a Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism is a response to the Holocaust. He offers a range of new perspectives, including new ways of looking at testimony and at and recent Holocaust fiction; explores controversies in Holocaust history; looks at the importance of the Holocaust for recent philosophy; and asks what the Holocaust means for reason, ethics, and for being human. |
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