Contemporary portrayals of Auschwitz : philosophical challenges / edited by Alan Rosenberg, James R. Watson and Detlef Linke.

Includes bibliographical references.

Improper sites / Debra B. Bergoffen --The voices of the victims / Hans Seigfried -- Of testimony, piles and the poetics of Final letters / Ruth Liberman -- Giving testimony / Burkhard Liebsch -- The Holocaust's moral "uniqueness" / Thomas W. Simon -- Morality of the light, morality of the dark : reflections on ethics and the Holocaust / Roger Fjellstrom -- "Identity without text" : negation and execution / Detlef Linke -- Heidegger's silence revisited / Peter Strasser -- Voluptuous anguish : contemporary Holocaust kitsch and the specter of the feminine / Jennifer Natalya Fink -- Art after Auschwitz and the necessity of a postmodern modernism / Andrew Weinstein -- Poetry after Auschwitz : Paul Celan's aesthetics of hermetism / Paul Sars -- A11380 : imaging within/beyond "liberation" / James R. Watson -- The modernity of Nazi euthanasia / Klaus Dörner -- Sexuality in the war against the Jews : perspectives from the work of Michel Foucault / James Bernauer -- Affect and modernity : notes toward an inquiry into the origins of the Holocaust / Dan Stone -- Remembering and forgetting : the social construction of a community of memory of the Holocaust / Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg -- Time's impossibility : the Holocaust and the historicity of history / Raj Sampath -- Figure, law, silence : "Auschwitz" and the crisis of representation / Frans van Peperstratten -- The Kampf for Language : Holocaust, Shoah, and sacrifice / Eve Tavor Bannet -- Austria's Heading : has the eagle landed again? / Erik M. Vogt -- "You can't make a full evening out being a Yid anymore" : George Tabori and the limits of the Holocaust's uniqueness / Karyn Ball.