| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 519 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Wulf Kansteiner and Todd Presner -- Part I. The stakes of narrative: Historical truth, estrangement, and disbelief / Hayden White -- On "historical modernism": a response to Hayden White / Saul Friedländer -- Sense and sensibility: the complicated Holocaust realism of Christopher Browning / Wulf Kansteiner -- A reply to Wulf Kansteiner / Christopher R. Browning -- Scales of postmemory: six of six million / Ann Rigney -- Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: a search for six of six million -- The death of the witness; or, The persistence of the differend / Marc Nichanian -- Part II. Remediations of the archive: The ethics of the algorithm: close and distant listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive / Todd Presner -- On the ethics of technology and testimony / Stephen D. Smith -- A "spatial turn" in Holocaust Studies? / Claudio Fogu -- Interview with Anne Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, and Paul B. Jaskot, contributing authors of Geographies of the Holocaust -- Freeze-framing: temporality and the archive in Forgács, Hersonski, and Friedländer / Nitzan Lebovic -- Witnessing the archive / Yael Hersonski -- Deconstructivism and the Holocaust: Peter Eisenman's memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld -- Berlin memorial redux / Peter Eisenman -- Part III. The politics of exceptionality: The Holocaust as genocide: experiential uniqueness and integrated history / Omer Bartov -- Anxieties in Holocaust and Genocide Studies / A. Dirk Moses -- The witness as "world" traveler: multidirectional memory and Holocaust internationalism before human rights / Michael Rothberg -- Fiction and solicitude: ethics and the conditions for survival / Judith Butler -- Catastrophes: afterlives of the exceptionality paradigm in Holocaust Studies / Elisabeth Weber -- Epilogue: Interview with Saul Friedländer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
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Holocaust memorials.
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Culture -- Study and teaching -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fogu, Claudio, 1963- editor
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Kansteiner, Wulf, editor
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Presner, Todd Samuel, editor
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| ISBN |
9780674973244 (electronic bk.) |
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0674973240 (electronic bk.) |
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