Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust - STONE, Dan (ed.)
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This book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and literature address the way the Holocaust had led to the reconceptualization of the humanities. The scholarly approaches of Pierre Klossowski, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot are examined critically, and the volume explores such poignant topics as violence, evil, and monuments.
Contents:
EDITORIAL FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
ONE ANDREW BENJAMIN:…mehr

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This book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and literature address the way the Holocaust had led to the reconceptualization of the humanities. The scholarly approaches of Pierre Klossowski, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot are examined critically, and the volume explores such poignant topics as violence, evil, and monuments.

Contents:
EDITORIAL FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
ONE ANDREW BENJAMIN: Interrupting Confession, Resisting Absolution: Monuments after the Holocaust
TWO RAVIT REICHMAN: The Myth of Old Forms: On the Unknowable and Representation
THREE IAN JAMES: Pierre Klossowski: The Suspended Self
FOUR DAN STONE: Georges Bataille and the Interpretation of the Holocaust
FIVE SARA GUYER: Being-Destroyed: Anthropomorphizing L'espèce humaine
SIX RICHARD STAMP: "Do Not Forget the Very Thing that Will Make You Lose Your Memory": Blanchot's "Désastre" and the Holocaust
SEVEN HEIDRUN FRIESE: Silence - Voice - Representation
EIGHT MICHAL BEN-NAFTALI: Lyotard's and Derrida's "Catastrophist Phenomenology"
NINE SIMON SPARKS: The Experience of Evil: Kant and Nancy
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INDEX