Probing the limits of representation

Nazism and the "final solution"

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Probing the limits of representation

Nazism and the "final solution"

German memory, judicial interrogation, and historical reconstruction : writing perpetrator history from postwar testimony / Christopher R. Browning -- Historical emplotment and the problem of truth / Hayden White -- On emplotment : two kinds of ruin / Perry Anderson -- History, counterhistory, and narrative / Amos Funkenstein -- Just one witness / Carlo Ginzburg -- Of plots, witnesses, and judgments / Martin Jay -- Representing the Holocaust : reflections on the historians' debate / Dominick LaCapra -- Historical understanding and counterrationality : the Judenrat as epistemological vantage / Dan Diner -- History beyond the pleasure principle : some thoughts on the representation of trauma / Eric L. Santner -- Habermas, enlightenment, and antisemitism / Vincent P. Pecora -- Between image and phrase : progressive history and the "final solution" as dispossession / Sande Cohen.; Science, modernity, and the "final solution" / Mario Biagioli -- Holocaust and the end of history : postmodern historiography in cinema / Anton Kaes -- Whose story is it, anyway? : ideology and psychology in the representation of the Shoah in Israeli literature / Yael S. Feldman -- Translating Paul Celan's "Todesfuge" : rhythm and repetition as metaphor / John Felstiner -- "The grave in the air" : unbound metaphors in post-Holocaust poetry / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The dialectics of unspeakability : language, silence, and the narratives of desubjectification / Peter Haidu -- The representation of limits / Berel Lang -- The book of the destruction / Geoffrey H. Hartman.

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Language
English
Pages
407

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-398) and index.
Papers from the conference on "Nazism and the 'Final Solution': Probing the Limits of Representation", held at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Apr. 26-29, 1990.

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Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/18
Library of Congress
D804.3 .P76 1992, D804.3.P76 1992

The Physical Object

Pagination
407 p. ;
Number of pages
407

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1549949M
ISBN 10
0674707656, 0674707664
LCCN
91029609
OCLC/WorldCat
24378098
LibraryThing
836228
Goodreads
3738458
450150

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18282179W

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