The Holocaust : theoretical readings / edited by Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg.

The drowned and the saved / Primo Levi -- Resentments / Jean Améry -- Days and memory / Charlotte Delbo -- The camps / Ruth Kluger -- On the public use of history / Jürgen Habermas -- The "Final Solution" : on the unease in historical interpretation / Saul Friedlander -- Historical understanding and counterrationality : the Judenrat as epistemological vantage / Dan Diner -- The uniqueness and normality of the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman -- The European imagination in the age of total war / Omer Bartov -- The origins of the Nazi genocide / Henry Friedlander -- The rhetoric of Hitler's "Battle" / Kenneth Burke -- The psychological structure of fascism / Georges Bataille -- Elements of anti-semitism / Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno -- The fiction of the political / Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe -- Anti-semitism and national socialism / Moishe Postone -- Ordinary men / Christopher Browning -- Floods, bodies, history / Klaus Theweleit -- Racism and sexism in Nazi Germany / Gisela Bock -- The unethical and unspeakable : women and the Holocaust / Joan Ringelheim -- Women and the Holocaust : analyzing gender difference / Pascale Rachel Bos -- Trauma and experience / Cathy Caruth -- Trauma, absence, loss / Dominick LaCapra -- Trauma and transference / Saul Friedlander -- History beyond the pleasure principle : some thoughts on the representation of trauma / Eric L. Santner -- Bearing witness or the vicissitudes of listening / Dori Laub -- Thinking the tremendum / Arthur A. Cohen -- To mend the world / Emil L. Fackenheim -- Ethics and spirit / Emmanuel Levinas -- Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt -- What is a camp? / Giorgio Agamben -- The differend / Jean-François Lyotard -- New political theology : out of Holocaust and liberation / Gillian Rose -- Theses on the philosophy of history / Walter Benjamin -- Cultural criticism and society / Theodor W. Adorno -- Meditations on metaphysics / Theodor W. Adorno -- Writing and the Holocaust / Irving Howe -- Non-philosophical amazement : writing in amazement : Benjamin's position in the aftermath of the Holocaust / Sigrid Weigel -- The writing of the disaster / Maurice Blanchot -- Shibboleth / Jacques Derrida -- Language and culture after the Holocaust / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- Representing Auschwitz / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The moral space of figurative discourse / Berel Lang -- Writing the Holocaust / James E. Young -- The modernist event / Hayden White -- Against foreshadowing / Michael André Bernstein -- Deep memory : the buried self / Lawrence L. Langer -- The return of the voice : Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Shoshana Felman -- Reflections of Nazism / Saul Friedlander -- Holocaust / Jean Baudrillard -- Anselm Kiefer : the terror of history, the temptation of myth / Andreas Huyssen -- The aesthetic transformation of the image of the unimaginable : notes on Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Gertrud Koch -- In plain sight / Lilliane Weissberg -- Memory shot through with holes / Henri Raczymow -- Mourning and postmemory / Marianne Hirsch -- Negative symbiosis : Germans and Jews after Auschwitz / Dan Diner -- The countermonument : memory against itself in Germany / James E. Young -- Two kinds of uniqueness : the universal aspects of the Holocaust / Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg -- What was the Holocaust? / Yehuda Bauer -- The black Atlantic / Paul Gilroy -- Thinking about genocide / Mahmood Mamdani -- Dare to compare : Americanizing the Holocaust / Lilian Friedberg -- The Holocaust in American life / Peter Novick.