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Book SynopsisThis book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and literature address the way the Holocaust had led to the reconceptualization of the humanities. The scholarly approaches of Pierre Klossowski, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot are examined critically, and the volume explores such poignant topics as violence, evil, and monuments.
Trade Review"[an] excellent edited collection … Stone’s volume is hugely welcome as an admirable comprehensive guide for an Anglophone readership to an alternative tradition of thinking about the Holocaust." - in: The Jewish Quarterly (Autumn 2002)
Table of ContentsEDITORIAL FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION ONE ANDREW BENJAMIN: Interrupting Confession, Resisting Absolution: Monuments after the Holocaust TWO RAVIT REICHMAN: The Myth of Old Forms: On the Unknowable and Representation THREE IAN JAMES: Pierre Klossowski: The Suspended Self FOUR DAN STONE: Georges Bataille and the Interpretation of the Holocaust FIVE SARA GUYER: Being-Destroyed: Anthropomorphizing L’espèce humaine SIX RICHARD STAMP: “Do Not Forget the Very Thing that Will Make You Lose Your Memory”: Blanchot’s “Désastre” and the Holocaust SEVEN HEIDRUN FRIESE: Silence — Voice — Representation EIGHT MICHAL BEN-NAFTALI: Lyotard’s and Derrida’s “Catastrophist Phenomenology” NINE SIMON SPARKS: The Experience of Evil: Kant and Nancy ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX
