Format:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 200 p)
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253217288
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0253345014
Series Statement:
Jewish literature and culture
Content:
"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. MorganIn 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. Wh
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-195) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; 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; Nine: Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (in Sex, Shit, and Status)
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Ten: Lachrymose without Tears: Misreading the Holocaust in American LifeEleven: ""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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253345011
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Post-Holocaust : Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History
Language:
English
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