History, memory, and mass atrocity : essays on the Holocaust and genocide / Dan Stone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modernity and violence : theoretical reflections on the Einsatzgruppen -- The Sonderkommando photographs -- Nazism as modern magic : Bronislaw Malinowski's political anthropology -- Ontology or bureaucracy? : Hannah Arendt's early interpretations of the Holocaust -- Georges Bataille and the interpretation of the Holocaust -- Perec's Antelme -- Paul Ricoeur, Hayden White, and Holocaust historiography -- Holocaust testimony and the challenge to the philosophy of history -- Holocaust memory, memorials and museums -- Britannia waives the rules : British imperialism and Holocaust memory -- Genocide as transgression -- Biopower and modern genocide -- The historiography of genocide : beyond 'uniqueness' and ethnic competition.