LEADER 02841cam a2200397 a 4500001 27284 005 20240621143422.0 008 980217t19961996xx a 000 0 eng d 020 0612148858 035 27284 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 B2430.D484 |bG79 1996 100 1 Grzyb, Amanda F., |d1970- 245 10 Jacques Derrida and the Holocaust : |bcinders, deconstruction and excessive responsibility / |cby Amanda F. Grzyb. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c[1996] 264 4 |c©1996 300 vi, 120 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1996. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-120). 520 My thesis explores the intersections between deconstruction and Holocaust Studies in Derrida's "Force of Law: The 'Mystical' Foundations of Authority" and Cinders. By defining Derrida's deconstruction as affirmative, my first chapter negotiates the ethical and political status of deconstruction, engaging objections in Paul Smith's Discerning the Subject, Dominick LaCapra's Representing the Holocaust, and Gayatri Spivak's Outside in the Teaching Machine. In particular, I focus on the varying associations of Derrida's deconstruction with the contemporary German revisionism of the historians of the Historikerstreit. My second chapter is a reading of Derrida's trope of the cinder and the questions surrounding the role of testimony and responsibility in historical and philosophical representations of the Holocaust. My final chapter traces the notion of "excessive responsibility" in Derrida's "Eating Well" and "Force of Law," in addition to Simon Critchley's The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas. By investigating the relationship between deconstruction, law, and justice, I hope to clarify the importance of responsibility and the recourse to history in any negotiation of deconstruction and the Holocaust. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1997. |e29 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Derrida, Jacques |xCriticism and interpretation. 650 0 Deconstruction. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xInfluence. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=740407511&sid=35&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib27284/MM14885.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hB2430.D484 G79 1996 852 |bwww 852 |bwww |hB2430.D484 |iG79 1996 852 |bebook