Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable

Literary and Photographic Transcendence

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvDavid Patterson

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Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.Many books focus on issues of Holocaust representation, but few address why the Holocaust in particular poses such a representational problem. David Patterson draws from Emmanuel Levinas's contention that the Good cannot be represented. He argues that the assault on the Good is equally nonrepresentable and this nonrepresentable aspect of the Holocaust is its distinguishing feature. Utilizing Jewish religious thought, Patterson examines how the literary word expresses the ineffable and how the photographic image manifests the invisible. Where the Holocaust is concerned, representation is a matter not of imagination but of ethical implication, not of what it was like but of what must be done. Ultimately Patterson provides a deeper understanding of why the Holocaust itself is indefinable-not only as an evil but also as a fundamental assault on the very categories of good and evil affirmed over centuries of Jewish teaching and testimony.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Antal sidor340
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438470054

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List of PhotographsAcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I. Reflections on Holocaust Representation and the Nonrepresentable: Theoretical Considerations By Way of a Prologue Naming It Naming Auschwitz Post-Auschwitz Implications for an Understanding of Language The Nonrepresentable and the Murder of the Mother The Silent Scream The Nonrepresentable Site of Silence Naming the Name, the Nameless, and the Assault on the Name The Nonrepresentable Assault on the Nonrepresentable Good The Assault on Time, the Death of Death, and Holocaust Representation A Memory and a NamePart II. The Literary Transcendence of Holocaust Representation: Speaking the Ineffable Opening Thoughts: Epiphany and the Ultimate A Word about Method: Substitution and the Transcendent The Extermination of the Eternal The Annihilation of the Father The Obliteration of the Mother The Collapse of Human Relation The Disintegration of Knowledge The Devastation of the Word The Demolition of Meaning The Desolation of the Soul The Death of Death The Eradication of the ChildPart III. The Photographic Transcendence of Holocaust Representation: Revealing the Invisible The Legacy of Lot’s Wife Footprints The Glory under Assault The Mothers of Israel The Child The Face The Edge of the Anti-World The Grave without a Cemetery The Muselmann Selection: No Judge and No Judgment A View from the Gas Chambers NotesBibliographyIndex