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ISBN:
9780511800412
Content:
The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. Moving from the Book of Job, an account of meaningful suffering in a God-drenched world, to the work of Primo Levi, who attempted to find meaning in the Holocaust through absolute clarity of insight, he concludes that neither strategy works well in today's world. More effective are the day-to-day coping practices of some survivors. Drawing on testimonies of survivors from the Fortunoff Video Archives, Alford also applies the work of Julia Kristeva and the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicot to his examination of a topic that has been and continues to be central to human experience.
Content:
Introduction -- Job, transitional space, and the ruthless use of the object -- Holocaust testimonies : after the silence of Job -- Sisyphus, Levi, and Job at Auschwitz -- Conclusion : beyond the silence of Job
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521747066
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521766326
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521766326
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521747066
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Alford, C. Fred, 1947 - After the Holocaust Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2009 ISBN 9780521766326
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521747066
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521747066
Additional Edition:
ISBN 052176632X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521766326
Language:
English
Keywords:
Leid
;
Grenzsituation
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Levi, Primo 1919-1987
;
Bibel Ijob
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511800412
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