Catastrophe and meaning : the Holocaust and the twentieth century / edited by Moishe Postone and Eric Santner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ideology and extermination : the immediate origins of the "Final Solution" / Saul Friedländer -- Anti-Semitism as explanation : for and against / Shulamit Volkov -- "Abyss that opened up before us" : thinking about Auschwitz and modernity / Anson Rabinbach -- Destruction of narrativity : the Holocaust in historical discourse / Dan Diner -- Holocaust and the trajectory of the twentieth century / Moishe Postone -- "Fields of glory" : war, genocide, and the glorification of violence / Omer Bartov -- Stalingrad, Hiroshima, Auschwitz : the fading of the therapeutic approach / Frank Trommler -- Agents, contexts, responsibilities : the massacre at Budy / Debórah Dwork -- New soundings in Holocaust literature : a surplus of memory / Froma Zeitlin -- Holocaust testimonies : attending to the victim's voice / Dominick LaCapra -- Holocaust and hope / Geoffrey Hartman -- Lament's hope / Paul Mendes-Flohr.