Title & Author:

Postmodernism and the Holocaust / edited by Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg.

Publication:

Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.

Description:

vi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; v. 72. Holocaust and genocide studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postmodernism and the Holocaust / Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg -- Inhalt Unzulässig : late mail from Lodz : a meditation on time and truth / Gregory Fried -- Truth's turning : history and the Holocaust / Wayne Klein -- Mark C. Taylor and the limits of the postmodern imagination / Tracy Fessenden -- From radical evil to the banality of evil : remarks on Kant and Arendt / Fabio Ciaramelli -- Levinas's substitutions and Arendt's concept of the political : becoming the plurality who we are / James R. Watson -- Serious ideas rooted in blood : Emmanuel Levinas's analysis of the philosophy of Hitlerism / Robert John Scheffler Manning -- Neither materialism nor idealism : Levinas's third way / Tina Chanter -- Unconditional responsibility for the other : the Holocaust and the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas / Helmut Peukert -- "The same hatred of the other man, the same anti-Semitism" / Hugh Miller -- sELection / John Llewelyn -- Michel Foucault, Auschwitz, and the destruction of the body / Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg -- The Holocaust as master rupture : Foucault, Fackenheim, and "Postmodernity" / John McCumber -- Cinders, traces, shadows on the page : the Holocaust in Derrida's writing / David Michael Levin -- Lyotard and disaster : forgetting the good / Stephen David Ross -- The art of memory : Anselm Kiefer and the Holocaust / Charles Molesworth.

Summary:

"This book is the first sustained inquiry into the ways in which postmodern thinkers have grappled with the historical bases, implications, and methodological problems of the Holocaust. The book examines the thinking of Arendt, Levinas, Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida, all of whom have recognized the centrality of the Nazi genocide to the epoch in which we live. The essays written for this volume constitute a wide-ranging study of the efforts of postmodernism to articulate the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9042005912
9789042005914
9042005815 (pbk.)
9789042005815 (pbk.)

Subject:

Bürger, Christa 1935- Postmoderne
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Postmodernism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Postmodernisme.
Holocauste, 1939-1945.
Judenvernichtung
Aufsatzsammlung
Postmoderne
Holocaust.
Philosophy, Modern 20th century.
Jewish philosophy.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
postmodernism
holocaust
genocide
APA

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Milchman, Alan, 1940-
Rosenberg, Alan, 1939-
Value inquiry book series ; v. 72.
Value inquiry book series. Holocaust and genocide studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204054
Call No.: B831.2 .P6 1998
Status: Available