Remembering the Holocaust : a debate /

This title brings together a wide range of leading historians social scientists, and literary scholars to explore the controversy surrounding the legacy of the Holocaust.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
Other Authors:	Jay, Martin, 1944-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art. Holocaust (Jewish theology) Holocauste, 1939-1945. Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature. Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans l'art. Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme. HISTORY / Europe / Western. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in art Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature Abstraktion Judenvernichtung Kollektives Gedächtnis Literatur Moral Soziologische Theorie History & Archaeology. History - General. Förintelsen. Förintelsen i litteraturen. Förintelsen i konsten. 1939-1945 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Foreword / Geoffrey Hartman
The social construction of moral universals / Jeffrey C. Alexander
Allegories of evil : a response to Jeffrey Alexander / Martin Jay
From denial to confessions of guilt : the German case / Bernhard Giesen
Multidirectional memory and the universalization of the Holocaust / Michael Rothberg
On the political corruptions of a moral universal / Robert Manne
Jeffrey Alexander on the response to the Holocaust / Nathan Glazer
Life and death among the binaries : notes on Jeffrey Alexander's constructionism / Elihu Katz and Ruth Katz
On the global and local representations of the holocaust tragedy / Jeffrey C. Alexander.