LEADER 03917nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910461999403321 005 20210608221757.0 010 $a3-11-096596-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110965964 035 $a(CKB)2670000000249447 035 $a(EBL)893525 035 $a(OCoLC)843634935 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000594599 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11336650 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000594599 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10548163 035 $a(PQKB)10871994 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC893525 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00008661 035 $a(DE-B1597)47046 035 $a(OCoLC)979590088 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110965964 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL893525 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10591142 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000249447 100 $a20010810d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAnthropology as memory$b[electronic resource] $eElias Canetti's and Franz Baermann Steiner's responses to the Shoah /$fMichael Mack 210 $aTu?bingen $cMax Niemeyer Verlag$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 0 $aConditio Judaica ;$v34 225 0$aConditio Judaica,$x0941-5866 ;$v34 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-484-65134-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-226) and index. 327 $apt. 1. Elias Canetti : anthropology as Literature -- pt. 2. Franz Baermann Steiner : anthropology and totalitarian terror -- pt. 3. Style, law and danger. 330 $aThis essay is offered particularly as a contribution to the relationship between theological and literary writings on the Holocaust. Franz Baermann Steiner's (1909-1952) detailed sociological work - he taught at the Department of Social Anthropology at Oxford and developed a sociology of danger that strongly influenced Mary Douglas, T. W. Adorno, Iris Murdoch, H.G. Adler and Julia Kristeva - contrasts with Canetti's emphasis on shock. Canetti's response to the Holocaust constitutes, in Dominick LaCapra's terms, an 'acting out' of trauma: a comparison between Canetti's »Masse und Macht« and the anthropological texts he uses brings to the fore his bleak depicton of humanity. By contrast, Steiner - in comparison to Canetti - lays emphasis on 'working through' the Holocaust, that is to say, on overcoming the paralysis of trauma by reflecting critically on values that might transform a damaged society. However, Canetti's depiction of humanity cannot entirely be seen in LaCapra's notion of 'acting out': for through the shock of 'acting out', Canetti nonetheless wants to bring about a 'working through'. Similarly, despite the 'working through' shock and trauma are dramatized in Steiner's poetry and his aphoristic writings. Morever, Canetti thematizes an ethical impact on his readership in his aphorisms. In response to the Holocaust both writers advance a theory of power: what Steiner calls danger, Canetti attacks as death. Steiner's and Canetti's respective responses to the Holocaust consists in a critique of static ways of thought, affirming 'metamorphosis', and deconceptualized understanding of the world which connects linguistic fluidity to the everchanging contextualities of social and embodied life. 410 0$aConditio Judaica 606 $aAnthropology in literature 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xInfluence 606 $aAnthropology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAnthropology in literature. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xInfluence. 615 0$aAnthropology. 676 $a830.9/358 700 $aMack$b Michael$f1969-2020.$01048797 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461999403321 996 $aAnthropology as memory$92477314 997 $aUNINA