LEADER 03287cam a2200493Ia 4500001 113621 005 20240621201259.0 008 060215s2005 xx rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3178163 |bUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocm65212925 035 113621 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PT2621.A26 |bZ93 2005 100 1 Stahman, Laura K., |d1965- 245 10 "Degenerate" hope : |bphilosophic and literary responses to antisemitism and the Holocaust / |cLaura K. Stahman. 246 30 Philosophic and literary responses to antisemitism and the Holocaust 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2005. 300 iv, 241 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240). 520 This study brings the writings of the German Jewish dialogic philosophers Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber and the French Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas together in order to analyze a selection of literary texts by Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, and Ilse Aichinger. I view the literary and philosophic texts as documents that articulate responses to notions of identity, nationalism, xenophobia, trauma, and the violence inherent in Fascist thinking, and I situate the various discourses in a historic/philosophic framework that illuminates the metaphoric residue of which and around which the texts are constructed. The mode of critique that Levinas's method of textual solicitation suggests reinscribes poetic texts with an ethical gesture that lies beneath the text. In attempting to trace this gesture, certain "art works" take on new exegetic urgency. I explore all of the texts examined under the chiffre of "hope." All of the writers in this study maintain that the human condition retains some utopic desire that allows for (and even demands) a confrontation with "hope." What this hope may be remains undefined, but it is the thread the runs throughout all the texts I explore. I trace this hope in the Hebraic notion of justice. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2006. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 20 January 2012. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Kafka, Franz, |d1883-1924 |xCriticism and interpretation. 600 10 Celan, Paul |xCriticism and interpretation. 600 10 Aichinger, Ilse |xCriticism and interpretation. 650 0 Antisemitism in literature. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 650 0 Jewish philosophy. 650 0 Jewish philosophers. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=932363581&sid=4&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib113621/3178163.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 C0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPT2621.A26 |iZ93 2005 852 |bwww 852 0 |bscstacks |hPT2621.A26 |iZ93 2005 |tc.2 852 0 |bebook