Post-Holocaust [[electronic resource] ] : interpretation, misinterpretation, and the claims of history / / Berel Lang

• Autore: Lang Berel
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 200 p
• Disciplina: 940.53/18/072
• Soggetto topico: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Moral and ethical aspects; Antisemitism - History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-195) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: In the Matter of Justice -- One: The Nazi as Criminal -- Two: Forgiveness, Revenge, and the Limits of Holocaust Justice -- Three: Evil, Suffering, and the Holocaust -- Four: Comparative Evil:Measuring Numbers, Degrees, People -- Part Two: Language and Lessons -- Five: The Grammar of Antisemitism -- Six: The Unspeakable vs. the Testimonial: Holocaust Trauma in Holocaust History -- Seven: Undoing Certain Mischievous Questions about the Holocaust -- Eight: From the Particular to the Universal, and Forward -- Part Three: For and Against Interpretation -- Nine: Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (in Sex, Shit, and Status) -- Ten: Lachrymose without Tears: Misreading the Holocaust in American Life -- Eleven: "Not Enough" vs. "Plenty" / Which Did Pius XII? -- Twelve: The Evil in Genocide -- Thirteen: Misinterpretation as the Author's Responsibility (Nietzsche's Fascism, for Instance) -- Afterword: Philosophy and/of the Holocaust -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "These essays are extremely well written, with the clarity and accessibility that one has come to expect from Berel Lang, one of the most respected and significant philosophers writing about the Holocaust and its impact." -- Michael L. Morgan In these trenchant essays, philosopher Berel Lang examines post-Holocaust intepretations -- and misinterpretations -- showing the ways in which rhetoric and ideology have affected historical discourse about the Holocaust and how these accounts can be deconstructed. Why didn't the Jews resist? How could the Germans have done what they did? Why didn't more bystanders join in the rescue? In Lang's view, these questions become mischievous when the circumstances in which victims, perpetrators, and bystanders played their roles are omitted or obscured. To confront such issues adequately requires comparative and contextual evidence. Post-Holocaust addresses such questions as the place of the Holocaust in the Nazi project as a whole, the roles of revenge and forgiveness in post-Holocaust Jewish thinking, Holocaust commemoration as artifice or "business," and the relationship of the Holocaust to traditional antisemitism. Lang's analysis provides an incisive and fruitful basis for confronting these critical subjects. Jewish Literature and Culture -- Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor.
• Titolo autorizzato: Post-Holocaust
• ISBN: 0-253-11052-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825845403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Jewish literature and culture.