Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture :: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 /: ed. by Claudio Fogu, Todd Presner, Wulf Kansteiner.

Name: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture : The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 / ed. by Claudio Fogu, Todd Presner, Wulf Kansteiner.
ISBN: 9780674973244

Bartov, Omer,; Browning, Christopher R.,; Butler, Judith,; Eisenman, Peter,; Fogu, Claudio,; Friedländer, Saul,; Hersonski, Yael,; Kansteiner, Wulf,; Lebovic, Nitzan,; Moses, A. Dirk,; Nichanian, Marc,; Presner, Todd,; Rigney, Ann,; Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.,; Rothberg, Michael,; Smith, Stephen D.,; Weber, Elisabeth,; White, Hayden,

doi:10.4159/9780674973244

Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture : The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 / ed. by Claudio Fogu, Todd Presner, Wulf Kansteiner.

2017

D804.7.M67 P76 2016eb

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Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture : The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 / ed. by Claudio Fogu, Todd Presner, Wulf Kansteiner.

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9780674973244

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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

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Depictions of the Holocaust in history, literature, and film became a focus of intense academic debate in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, with the passing of the eyewitness generation and the rise of comparative genocide studies, the Holocaust's privileged place not only in scholarly discourse but across Western society has been called into question. Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture is a searching reappraisal of the debates and controversies that have shaped Holocaust studies over a quarter century. This landmark volume brings international scholars of the founding generation of Holocaust studies into conversation with a new generation of historians, artists, and writers who have challenged the limits of representation through their scholarly and cultural practices. Focusing on the public memorial cultures, testimonial narratives, and artifacts of cultural memory and history generated by Holocaust remembrance, the volume examines how Holocaust culture has become institutionalized, globalized, and variously contested. Organized around three interlocking themes-the stakes of narrative, the remediation of the archive, and the politics of exceptionality-the essays in this volume explore the complex ethics surrounding the discourses, artifacts, and institutions of Holocaust remembrance. From contrasting viewpoints and, in particular, from the multiple perspectives of genocide studies, the authors question if and why the Holocaust should remain the ultimate test case for ethics and a unique reference point for how we understand genocide and crimes against humanity.

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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: The Field of Holocaust Studies and the Emergence of Global Holocaust Culture
Part I. The Stakes of Narrative
1. Historical Truth, Estrangement, and Disbelief
2. On "Historical Modernism": A Response to Hayden White
3. Sense and Sensibility: The Complicated Holocaust Realism of Christopher Browning
4. A Reply to Wulf Kansteiner
5. Scales of Postmemory: Six of Six Million
6. Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn, Author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
7. The Death of the Witness; or, The Persistence of the Differend
Part II. Remediations of The Archive
8. The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
9. On the Ethics of Technology and Testimony
10. A "Spatial Turn" in Holocaust Studies?
11. Interview with Anne Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, and Paul B. Jaskot, Contributing
12. Freeze- Framing: Temporality and the Archive in Forgács, Hersonski, and Friedländer
13. Witnessing the Archive
14. Deconstructivism and the Holocaust: Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Eu rope
15. Berlin Memorial Redux
Part III. The Politics of Exceptionality
16. The Holocaust as Genocide: Experiential Uniqueness and Integrated History
17. Anxieties in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
18. The Witness as "World" Traveler: Multidirectional Memory and Holocaust Internationalism before Human Rights
19. Fiction and Solicitude: Ethics and the Conditions for Survival
20. Catastrophes: Afterlives of the Exceptionality Paradigm in Holocaust Studies
Epilogue: Interview with Saul Friedländer
Notes
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Contributors
Index

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