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Social theory after the Holocaust

Author: Robert Fine; Charles Turner
Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000.
Series: Studies in social and political thought.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The holocaust has had a profound impact in some areas and on some constituents of social theory, not only as a topic of enquiry, but also as a testing ground of its concepts of understanding, standards of judgment and procedures of inquiry. This collection of essays explores the character and quality of the Holocaust's impact and the abiding legacy it has left for social theory. The premise which informs the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Fine; Charles Turner
ISBN: 0853239657 9780853239659 0853239754 9780853239758
OCLC Number: 44736393
Description: 266 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Holocaust's life as a ghost / Zygmunt Bauman --
Hannah Arendt: politics and understanding after the Holocaust / Robert Fine --
Whither the broken middle? / Rose and Fackenheim on mourning, modernity and the Holocaust / Anthony Gorman --
Good against evil? H.G. Adler, T.W. Adorno and the representation of the Holocaust / Jeremy Adler --
'After Auschwitz': trauma and the grammar of ethics / J.M. Bernstein --
Lyotard: emancipation, anti-semitism and 'the Jews' / David Seymour --
Eradicating evil: Levinas, Judaism and the Holocaust / Victor J. Seidler --
Silence-voice-representation / Heidrun Friese --
Friends and others: Lessing's Die Juden and Nathan der Weise / Andrew Benjamin --
The visibility of the Holocaust: Franz Neumann and the Nuremberg trials / Michael Salter --
Holocaust testimony and the challenge to the philosophy of history / Dan Stone --
Open behind: myth and politics / Charles Turner.
Series Title: Studies in social and political thought.
Responsibility: edited by Robert Fine and Charles Turner.
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