Overview

In these trenchant essays, philosopher Berel Lang examines post-Holocaust interpretations - and misinterpretations - showing the ways in which rhetoric and ideology have affected historical discourse about the Holocaust and how these accounts can be deconstructed. Why didn't the Jews resist? How could the Germans have done what they did? Why didn't more bystanders join in the rescue? In Lang's view, these questions become mischievous when the circumstances in which victims, perpetrators, and bystanders played their roles are omitted or obscured. To confront such issues adequately requires comparative and contextual evidence. ""Post-Holocaust"" addresses such questions as the place of the Holocaust in the Nazi project as a whole, the roles of revenge and forgiveness in post-Holocaust Jewish thinking, Holocaust commemoration as artifice or ""business,"" and the relationship of the Holocaust to traditional anti-semitism. Lang's analysis provides an incisive and fruitful basis for confronting these critical subjects.

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Author:   Berel Lang
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780253217288

ISBN 10:   0253217288
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   18 January 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Notes Index"

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These essays are extremely well written, with the clarity and accessibility that one has come to expect from Berel Lang, one of the most respected and significant philosophers writing about the Holocaust and its impact. Michael L. Morgan

Author Information

Berel Lang is Professor of Humanities at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is author of Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide; Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics; and The Future of the Holocaust: Between History and Memory.

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