Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture : : The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945 / / ed. by Claudio Fogu, Todd Presner, Wulf Kansteiner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Bartov, Omer,; Browning, Christopher R.,; Butler, Judith,; Eisenman, Peter,; Fogu, Claudio,; Friedländer, Saul,; Hersonski, Yael,; Kansteiner, Wulf,; Lebovic, Nitzan,; Moses, A. Dirk,; Nichanian, Marc,; Presner, Todd,; Rigney, Ann,; Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.,; Rothberg, Michael,; Smith, Stephen D.,; Weber, Elisabeth,; White, Hayden,
• HerausgeberIn: Fogu, Claudio,; Kansteiner, Wulf,; Presner, Todd,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (490 p.) :; 24 halftones

Depictions of the Holocaust in history, literature, and film became a focus of intense academic debate in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, with the passing of the eyewitness generation and the rise of comparative genocide studies, the Holocaust’s privileged place not only in scholarly discourse but across Western society has been called into question. Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture is a searching reappraisal of the debates and controversies that have shaped Holocaust studies over a quarter century. This landmark volume brings international scholars of the founding generation of Holocaust studies into conversation with a new generation of historians, artists, and writers who have challenged the limits of representation through their scholarly and cultural practices. Focusing on the public memorial cultures, testimonial narratives, and artifacts of cultural memory and history generated by Holocaust remembrance, the volume examines how Holocaust culture has become institutionalized, globalized, and variously contested. Organized around three interlocking themes—the stakes of narrative, the remediation of the archive, and the politics of exceptionality—the essays in this volume explore the complex ethics surrounding the discourses, artifacts, and institutions of Holocaust remembrance. From contrasting viewpoints and, in particular, from the multiple perspectives of genocide studies, the authors question if and why the Holocaust should remain the ultimate test case for ethics and a unique reference point for how we understand genocide and crimes against humanity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Field of Holocaust Studies and the Emergence of Global Holocaust Culture -- Part I. The Stakes of Narrative -- 1. Historical Truth, Estrangement, and Disbelief -- 2. On “Historical Modernism”: A Response to Hayden White -- 3. Sense and Sensibility: The Complicated Holocaust Realism of Christopher Browning -- 4. A Reply to Wulf Kansteiner -- 5. Scales of Postmemory: Six of Six Million -- 6. Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn, Author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million -- 7. The Death of the Witness; or, The Persistence of the Differend -- Part II. Remediations of The Archive -- 8. The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive -- 9. On the Ethics of Technology and Testimony -- 10. A “Spatial Turn” in Holocaust Studies? -- 11. Interview with Anne Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, and Paul B. Jaskot, Contributing -- 12. Freeze- Framing: Temporality and the Archive in Forgács, Hersonski, and Friedländer -- 13. Witnessing the Archive -- 14. Deconstructivism and the Holocaust: Peter Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Eu rope -- 15. Berlin Memorial Redux -- Part III. The Politics of Exceptionality -- 16. The Holocaust as Genocide: Experiential Uniqueness and Integrated History -- 17. Anxieties in Holocaust and Genocide Studies -- 18. The Witness as “World” Traveler: Multidirectional Memory and Holocaust Internationalism before Human Rights -- 19. Fiction and Solicitude: Ethics and the Conditions for Survival -- 20. Catastrophes: Afterlives of the Exceptionality Paradigm in Holocaust Studies -- Epilogue: Interview with Saul Friedländer -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Contributors -- Index