Post-Holocaust : interpretation, misinterpretation, and the claims of history /
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| Author / Creator: | Lang, Berel. |
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xviii, 200 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish literature and culture |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5574034 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. In the Matter of Justice
- 1. The Nazi as Criminal: Inside and Outside the Holocaust
- 2. Forgiveness, Revenge, and the Limits of Holocaust Justice
- 3. Evil, Suffering, and the Holocaust
- 4. Comparative Evil: Measuring Numbers, Degrees, People
- Part II. Language and Lessons
- 5. The Grammar of Antisemitism
- 6. The Unspeakable vs. the Testimonial: Holocaust Trauma in Holocaust History
- 7. Undoing Certain Mischievous Questions about the Holocaust
- 8. From the Particular to the Universal, and Forward: Representations and Lessons
- Part III. For and Against Interpretation
- 9. Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (in Sex, Shit, and Status)
- 10. Lachrymose without Tears: Misreading the Holocaust in American Life
- 11. "Not Enough" vs. "Plenty": Which Did Pius XII?
- 12. The Evil in Genocide
- 13. Misinterpretation as the Author's Responsibility (Nietzsche's Fascism, for Instance) Afterword: Philosophy and/of the Holocaust
