Berel Lang

Post-Holocaust

Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jewish Literature and Culture-Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780253217288
• ISBN-10: 0253217288
• Artikelnr.: 21034052

Autorenporträt

Berel Lang is Professor of Humanities at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is author of Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide; Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics; and The Future of the Holocaust: Between History and Memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. In the Matter of Justice
1. The Nazi as Criminal: Inside and Outside the Holocaust
2. Forgiveness, Revenge, and the Limits of Holocaust Justice
3. Evil, Suffering, and the Holocaust
4. Comparative Evil: Measuring Numbers, Degrees, People
Part II. Language and Lessons
5. The Grammar of Antisemitism
6. The Unspeakable vs. the Testimonial: Holocaust Trauma in Holocaust
History
7. Undoing Certain Mischievous Questions about the Holocaust
8. From the Particular to the Universal, and Forward: Representations and
Lessons
Part III. For and Against Interpretation
9. Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (in Sex, Shit, and Status)
10. Lachrymose without Tears: Misreading the Holocaust in American Life
11. "Not Enough" vs. "Plenty": Which Did Pius XII?
12. The Evil in Genocide
13. Misinterpretation as the Author's Responsibility (Nietzsche's Fascism,
for Instance)
Afterword: Philosophy and/of the Holocaust
Notes
Index