Social theory after the Holocaust / [electronic resource]
Fine, Robert,1945-editor.
Turner, Charles,editor.
This collection of essays explores the character and quality of the Holocaust's impact and the abiding legacy it has left for social theory. The premise which informs the contributions is that, ten years after its publication, Zygmunt Bauman's claim that social theory has either failed to address the Holocaust or protected itself from its implications remains true.
Title Page; Contents; Introduction; 1: The Holocaust's Life as a Ghost; 2: Hannah Arendt: Politics and Understanding after the Holocaust; 3: Whither the Broken Middle? Rose and Fackenheim on Mourning, Modernity and the Holocaust; 4: Good against Evil? H.G. Adler, T.W. Adorno and the Representation of the Holocaust; 5: 'After Auschwitz': Trauma and the Grammar of Ethics; 6: Lyotard: Emancipation, Anti-Semitism and 'the Jews'; 7: Eradicating Evil: Levinas, Judaism and the Holocaust; 8: Silence - Voice - Representation; 9: Friends and Others: Lessing's Die Juden and Nathan der Weise
10: The Visibility of the Holocaust: Franz Neumann and the Nuremburg Trials11: Holocaust Testimony and the Challenge to the Philosophy of History; 12: Open Behind: Myth and Politics; Notes on Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).
This collection of essays explores the character and quality of the Holocaust's impact and the abiding legacy it has left for social theory. The premise which informs the contributions is that, ten years after its publication, Zygmunt Bauman's claim that social theory has either failed to address the Holocaust or protected itself from its implications remains true.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Social sciences