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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Publisher’s Acknowledgements xiii
5. About this book xix
6. General Introduction 1
7. PART I: THEORY AND EXPERIENCE
8. Introduction 23
9. 1 The Drowned and the Saved 29
10. 2 ‘Resentments’ 36
11. 3 Days and Memory 45
12. 4 ‘The Camps’ 50
13. PART II: HISTORICIZING THE HOLOCAUST?
14. Introduction 57
15. 5 ‘On the Public Use of History’ 63
16. 6 ‘The “ Final Solution” : On the Unease in Historical Interpretation 69
17. 7 ‘Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage’ 75
18. 8 ‘The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust’ 82
19. 9 ‘The European Imagination in the Age of Total War’ 89
20. 10 The Origins of the Nazi Genocide 96
21. PART III: NAZI CULTURE, FASCISM, AND ANTISEMITISM
22. Introduction 101
23. 11 ‘The Rhetoric of Hitler’s “ Battle” ’ 107
24. 12 ‘The Psychological Structure of Fascism’ 113
25. 13 ‘Elements of Anti-Semitism’ 121
26. 14 ‘The Fiction of the Political’ 127
27. 15 ‘Anti-Semitism and National Socialism’ 132
28. 16 ‘Ordinary Men’ 140
29. PART IV: RACE, GENDER, AND GENOCIDE
30. Introduction 145
31. 17 ‘Floods, Bodies, History’ 151
32. 18 ‘Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany’ 160
33. 19 ‘The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust’ 169
34. 20 ‘Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference’ 178
35. PART V: PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA, AND MEMORY
36. Introduction 187
37. 21 ‘Trauma and Experience’ 192
38. 22 ‘Trauma, Absence, Loss’ 199
39. 23 ‘Trauma and Transference’ 206
40. 24 ‘History Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma’ 214
41. 25 ‘Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening’ 221
42. PART VI: QUESTIONS OF RELIGION, ETHICS, AND JUSTICE
43. Introduction 227
44. 26 ‘Thinking the Tremendum’ 233
45. 27 ‘To Mend the World’ 237
46. 28 ‘Ethics and Spirit’ 241
47. 29 Eichmann in Jerusalem 246
48. 30 ‘What is a Camp?’ 252
49. 31 The Differend 257
50. 32 ‘New Political Theology - Out of Holocaust and Liberation’ 263
51. PART VII: LITERATURE AND CULTURE AFTER AUSCHWITZ
52. Introduction 271
53. 33 ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ 277
54. 34 ‘Cultural Criticism and Society’ 280
55. 35 ‘Meditations on Metaphysic 282
56. 36 ‘Writing and the Holocaust’ 288
57. 37 ‘Non-Philosophical Amazement - Writing in Amazement: Benjamin’s Position in the Aftermath of the Holocaust’ 291
58. 38 The Writing of the Disaster 299
59. 39 ‘Shibboleth’ 306
60. 40 ‘Language and Culture after the Holocaust’ 313
61. 41 ‘Representing Auschwitz’ 318
62. PART VIII: MODES OF NARRATION
63. Introduction 323
64. 42 ‘The Moral Space of Figurative Discourse’ 329
65. 43 ‘Writing the Holocaust’ 335
66. 44 ‘The Modernist Event’ 339
67. 45 ‘Against Foreshadowing’ 346
68. 46 ‘Deep Memory: The Buried Self’ 354
69. 47 ‘The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’ 360
70. PART IX: RETHINKING VISUAL CULTURE
71. Introduction 369
72. 48 Reflections of Nazism 375
73. 49 ‘Holocaust’ 380
74. 50 ‘Anselm Kiefer: the Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth’ 383
75. 51 ‘The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable: Notes on Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’ 389
76. 52 ‘In Plain Sight’ 396
77. PART X: LATECOMERS: NEGATIVE SYMBIOSIS, POSTMEMORY, AND COUNTERMEMORY
78. Introduction 405
79. 53 ‘Memory Shot Through with Holes’ 410
80. 54 ‘Mourning and Postmemory’ 416
81. 55 ‘Negative Symbiosis: Germans and Jews after Auschwitz’ 423
82. 56 ‘The Countermonument: Memory Against Itself in Germany’ 431
83. PART XI: UNIQUENESS, COMPARISON, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
84. Introduction 439
85. 57 ‘Two Kinds of Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust’ 444
86. 58 ‘What Was the Holocaust?’ 451
87. 59 The Black Atlantic 455
88. 60 ‘Thinking about Genocide’ 461
89. 61 ‘Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust’ 468
90. 62 The Holocaust in American Life 474
91. Index 481