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The Holocaust : Theoretical Readings, Paperback / softback Book

The Holocaust : Theoretical Readings Paperback / softback

Edited by Neil Levi, Michael Rothberg

Paperback / softback

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The first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable volume.This agenda-setting reader brings together both classic and new writings to demonstrate how concerns arising from the Nazi genocide shaped contemporary literary and cultural theory.

Wide in its thematic scope, it covers such vital questions as: - Authenticity and experience - Memory and trauma - Historiography and the philosophy of history - Fascism and Nazi anti-Semitism - Representation and identity formation - Race, gender, and genocide - Implications of the Holocaust for theories of the unconscious, ethics, politics, and aestheticsThe readings, which are fully contextualized by a general introduction, section introductions, and bibliographical notes, represent the work of many influential writers and theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Jean Baudrillard, Zygmunt Bauman, Walter Benjamin, Cathy Caruth, Jacques Derrida, Shoshana Felman, Saul Friedlander, Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Langer, Emmanuel Levinas, Primo Levi, Jean-François Lyotard, Hayden White, and James E.

Young. This multidisciplinary anthology will be welcomed by students and scholars of the Holocaust.

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