Description
Book SynopsisExamines the tensions between the ethical and aesthetic imperatives in literary, artistic, and philosophical works about the Holocaust
Trade Review"This book is very profound. Every time Glowacka introduces a major thinker into her consideration of the questions at hand she adds a much deeper understanding not only of the question but also of the thinker. This is a must read for Holocaust scholars and teachers." David Patterson, Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas "Dorota Glowacka's impassioned and eloquent dialogue with the philoso--pher Emmanuel Levinas makes a persuasive case for translating his ethics into a poetics (what she calls "poethics") that powerfully illuminates post-Holocaust philosophy, literature, and visual art." Karyn Ball, author of Disciplining the Holocaust
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials between Ethics and Aesthetics
1. “Like an Echo without a Source”: Subjectivity as Witnessing and the Holocaust Narrative
2. The Tower of Babel: Holocaust Testimonials and the Ethics of Translation
3. Lending an Ear to the Silence Phrase: Holocaust Writing of the Differend
4. Poethics of Disappearing Traces: Levinas, Literary Testimony, and Holocaust Art
5. “Witnesses against Themselves”: Encounters with Daughters of Absence
Epilogue: “To Write Another Book about the Holocaust . . . ”
Notes
Works Cited
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