Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial

Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial
Author: Robert Eaglestone
Publisher: Totem Books
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

Deborah Lipstadt claimed that David Irving was a Hitler partisan wearing blinkers bending and manipulating evidence: the most dangerous spokesperson for Holocaust denial. Irving sued her and her publishers in a high profile case and lost.

Postmodernism and the Holocaust

Postmodernism and the Holocaust
Author: Alan Milchman
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789042005914

This book is the first sustained inquiry into the ways in which postmodern thinkers have grappled with the historical bases, implications, and methodological problems of the Holocaust. The book examines the thinking of Arendt, Levinas, Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida, all of whom have recognized the centrality of the Nazi genocide to the epoch in which we live. The essays written for this volume constitute a wide-ranging study of the efforts of postmodernism to articulate the Holocaust.

The Holocaust and the Postmodern

The Holocaust and the Postmodern
Author: Robert Eaglestone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2004-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199265933

Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism is a response to the Holocaust. He offers a range of new perspectives, including new ways of looking at testimony and at and recent Holocaust fiction; explores controversies in Holocaust history; looks at the importance of the Holocaust for recent philosophy; and asks what the Holocaust means for reason, ethics, and for being human

Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial

Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial
Author: Robert Eaglestone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781840469325

Explores the idea that the questions postmodernism asks of history and historians are in fact strong weapons in combating Holocaust denial.

History, what and Why?

History, what and Why?
Author: Beverley C. Southgate
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415256575

This is a highly accessible introductory survey of historians' views about the nature and purpose of their subject and discusses the traditional model of history as an account of the past 'as it was'.

Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust

Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust
Author: Anthony McElligott
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 331948866X

Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases "Holocaust inversion" in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust. It thus offers both a historical and contemporary perspective. This volume includes observations by leading scholars, delivering powerful, even controversial essays by scholars who are reporting from the ‘frontline.’ It offers a discussion on the relationship between Christianity and Islam, as well as the historical and contemporary issues of antisemitism in the USA, Europe, and the Middle East. This book explores how all of these issues contribute consciously or otherwise to contemporary antisemitism. The chapters of this volume do not necessarily provide a unity of argument – nor should they. Instead, they expose the plurality of positions within the academy and reflect the robust discussions that occur on the subject.

The Holocaust and the Postmodern

The Holocaust and the Postmodern
Author: Robert Eaglestone
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2004-12-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191532789

Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism, especially understood in the light of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, is a response to the Holocaust. This way of thinking offers new perspectives on Holocaust testimony, literature, historiography, and post-Holocaust philosophy. While postmodernism is often derided for being either playful and superficial or obscure and elitist, Eaglestone argues and demonstrates its commitment both to the past and to ethics. Dealing with Holocaust testimony, including the work of Primo Levi and Eli Wiesel, with the memoirs of 'second generation' survivors and with recent Holocaust literature, including Anne Michael's Fugitive Pieces, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated and the false memoir of Benjamin Wilkomirski, The Holocaust and the Postmodern proposes a new way of reading both Holocaust testimony and Holocaust fiction. Through an exploration of Holocaust historiography, the book offers a new approach to debates over truth and memory. Eaglestone argues for the central importance of the Holocaust in understanding the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, and goes on to explore what the Holocaust means for rationality, ethics, and for the idea of what it is to be human. Weaving together theory and practice, testimony, literature, history, philosophy, and Holocaust studies, this interdisciplinary book is the first to explore in detail the significance of the Holocaust for postmodernism, and the significance of postmodernism for understanding the Holocaust.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2023-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0063290693

"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.

The Troubles With Postmodernism

The Troubles With Postmodernism
Author: Stefan Morawski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134869789

In this original and eye-opening study, Stefan Morawski sheds light on the often confused debate about postmodernism, postmodernity and human values. Drawing upon a wide range of evidence from the experience of everyday life in the sciences, religion, visual arts, literature, film, television and contemporary music, The Troubles with Postmodernism is an indispensable guide to our understanding and evaluation of contemporary literature.

Explaining Postmodernism

Explaining Postmodernism
Author: Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher: Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781592476428