Probing the Limits of Representation - Nazism and the “Final Solution”

Can the holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our Power depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, twenty scholars probe the moral, epistemological, and aesthetic limits of an account or portrayal of the Nazi horror.

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Saul Friedlander

Summary

Can the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, twenty scholars probe the moral, epistemological, and aesthetic limits of an account or portrayal of the Nazi horror.

Product details

• Authors: Saul Friedlander
• Assisted by: Saul Friedlander (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1992
• EAN: 9780674707665
• ISBN: 978-0-674-70766-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 636 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries