Auschwitz and After [2. edition] 9780300190779, 0300190778

Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memo

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English Pages xxvii, 358 s. : illustration ; 21 cm Year 2014;1995

Auschwitz and After [2. edition]
9780300190779, 0300190778

Table of contents :
None of us will return --
Useless knowledge --
Measure of our days

Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memo

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Romanticism After Auschwitz reveals how post-Holocaust testimony remains romantic, and shows why romanticism must theref

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The relations between memory and history have recently become a subject of contention, and the implications of that deba

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Born into privilege in Hungary, Hermann Gruenwald's idyllic childhood came to an end in 1944 when he and his family

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Born into privilege in Hungary, Hermann Gruenwald's idyllic childhood came to an end in 1944 when he and his family

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Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy—the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ours

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In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any conc

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“After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s fa

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From the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the horrors of Natio

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