{"product_id":"probing-the-limits-of-representation-nazism-the-final-solution-9780674707665","title":"Probing the Limits of Representation  Nazism  the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, twenty scholars probe the moral, epistemological, and aesthetic limits of an account or portrayal of the Nazi horror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat might it mean to call the Holocaust a ’crisis in form’…the Shoah nonetheless challenges our powers to draw something like a meaning, or maybe even more than one, from this powerful sense of meaningfulness. At the same time that it renders the task of historical comprehension ethically imperative, it threatens to expose the inadequacies, or at the very least the limitations of our familiar modes of coming to understand cultural events. -- Irene Tucker * Poetics Today *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Saul Friedlander   1. German Memory, Judicial Interrogation, and Historical Reconstruction: Writing Perpetrator History from Postwar Testimony   Christopher R. Browing   2. Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth   Hayden White   3. On Emplotment: Two Kinds of Ruin  Perry Anderson   4. History, Counterhistory and Narrative  Amos Funkenstien   5. Just One Witness  Carlo Ginzburg   6. Of Plots, Witness and Judgments  Martin Jay   7. Representing the Holocaust: Reflections on the Historians' Debate  Dominick LaCapra   8. Historical Understanding and Counterrationally: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage  Dan Diner   9. History beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma  Eric L. Santner   10. Habermas, Enlightenment, and Antisemitism  Vincent P. Pecora   11. Between Image and Phrase: Progessive History and the \"Final Solution\" as Dispossession  Sande Cohen   12. Science, Modernity, and the \"Final Solution\"   Mario Biagioli   13. Holocaust and the End of History: Postmodern Historiography in Cinema   Anton Kaes   14. Whose Story Is It, Anyways? Ideology and Psychology in the Representation of the Shoah in Israeli Literature  Yael S. Feldman   15. Translating Paul Celan's \"Todesfuge\": Rhythm and Repetition as Metaphor  John Felstiner   16. \"The Grave in the Air\": Unbound Metaphors in Post-Holocaust Poetry  Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi   17. The Dialectics of Unspeakability: Language, Silence, and the Narratives of Desubjectification  Peter Haidu   18. The Representation of Limits   Berel Lang   19. The Book of the Destruction  Geoffrey H. Hartman   Notes   Contributors   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403602469207,"sku":"9780674707665","price":37.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674707665.jpg?v=1730483951","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/probing-the-limits-of-representation-nazism-the-final-solution-9780674707665","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}