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25 ‘Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening’

From the book The Holocaust

  • Dori Laub
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474470230-034
© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
From the book
The Holocaust
The Holocaust

Chapters in this book (80)

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
About this book
General Introduction
PART I: THEORY AND EXPERIENCE
Introduction
1 The Drowned and the Saved
2 ‘Resentments’
3 Days and Memory
4 ‘The Camps’
PART II: HISTORICIZING THE HOLOCAUST?
Introduction
5 ‘On the Public Use of History’
6 ‘The “ Final Solution” : On the Unease in Historical Interpretation
7 ‘Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage’
8 ‘The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust’
9 ‘The European Imagination in the Age of Total War’
10 The Origins of the Nazi Genocide
PART III: NAZI CULTURE, FASCISM, AND ANTISEMITISM
Introduction
11 ‘The Rhetoric of Hitler’s “ Battle” ’
12 ‘The Psychological Structure of Fascism’
13 ‘Elements of Anti-Semitism’
14 ‘The Fiction of the Political’
15 ‘Anti-Semitism and National Socialism’
16 ‘Ordinary Men’
PART IV: RACE, GENDER, AND GENOCIDE
Introduction
17 ‘Floods, Bodies, History’
18 ‘Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany’
19 ‘The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust’
20 ‘Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference’
PART V: PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA, AND MEMORY
Introduction
21 ‘Trauma and Experience’
22 ‘Trauma, Absence, Loss’
23 ‘Trauma and Transference’
24 ‘History Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma’
25 ‘Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening’
PART VI: QUESTIONS OF RELIGION, ETHICS, AND JUSTICE
Introduction
26 ‘Thinking the Tremendum’
27 ‘To Mend the World’
28 ‘Ethics and Spirit’
29 Eichmann in Jerusalem
30 ‘What is a Camp?’
31 The Differend
32 ‘New Political Theology - Out of Holocaust and Liberation’
PART VII: LITERATURE AND CULTURE AFTER AUSCHWITZ
Introduction
33 ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’
34 ‘Cultural Criticism and Society’
35 ‘Meditations on Metaphysic
36 ‘Writing and the Holocaust’
37 ‘Non-Philosophical Amazement - Writing in Amazement: Benjamin’s Position in the Aftermath of the Holocaust’
38 The Writing of the Disaster
39 ‘Shibboleth’
40 ‘Language and Culture after the Holocaust’
41 ‘Representing Auschwitz’
PART VIII: MODES OF NARRATION
Introduction
42 ‘The Moral Space of Figurative Discourse’
43 ‘Writing the Holocaust’
44 ‘The Modernist Event’
45 ‘Against Foreshadowing’
46 ‘Deep Memory: The Buried Self’
47 ‘The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’
PART IX: RETHINKING VISUAL CULTURE
Introduction
48 Reflections of Nazism
49 ‘Holocaust’
50 ‘Anselm Kiefer: the Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth’
51 ‘The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable: Notes on Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’
52 ‘In Plain Sight’
PART X: LATECOMERS: NEGATIVE SYMBIOSIS, POSTMEMORY, AND COUNTERMEMORY
Introduction
53 ‘Memory Shot Through with Holes’
54 ‘Mourning and Postmemory’
55 ‘Negative Symbiosis: Germans and Jews after Auschwitz’
56 ‘The Countermonument: Memory Against Itself in Germany’
PART XI: UNIQUENESS, COMPARISON, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
Introduction
57 ‘Two Kinds of Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust’
58 ‘What Was the Holocaust?’
59 The Black Atlantic
60 ‘Thinking about Genocide’
61 ‘Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust’
62 The Holocaust in American Life
Index
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