Physical Description
vii, 519 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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
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, Paul Jaskot, and Alberto Giordano, 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.
Other Authors/Editors
Fogu, Claudio, 1963- editor.
Kansteiner, Wulf, editor.
Presner, Todd Samuel, editor.
ISBN
9780674970519
0674970519
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-495) and index.
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 -- 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, Paul Jaskot, and Alberto Giordano, 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.
Additional Form
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