Social Theory After the HolocaustRobert Fine, Charles Turner This collection of essays explores the character and quality of the Holocaust's impact and the abiding legacy it has left for social theory. The premise which informs the contributions is that, ten years after its publication, Zygmunt Bauman's claim that social theory has either failed to address the Holocaust or protected itself from its implications remains true. |
Contents
Introduction Robert Fine and Charles Turner 17 | 1 |
Politics and Understanding after the Holocaust | 19 |
Whither the Broken Middle? Rose and Fackenheim on Mourning | 47 |
Good against Evil? H G Adler T W Adorno and the Representation | 71 |
Trauma and the Grammar of Ethics | 101 |
Emancipation AntiSemitism and the Jews | 125 |
Levinas Judaism and the Holocaust Victor J Seidler | 141 |
Silence Voice Representation Heidrun Friese | 159 |
Lessings Die Juden and Nathan der Weise | 179 |
Franz Neumann and the Nuremberg | 197 |
Holocaust Testimony and the Challenge to the Philosophy of History | 219 |
Myth and Politics Charles Turner | 235 |
Notes on Contributors | 259 |
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