- Introduction [Saul Friedlander]
- 1. German Memory, Judicial Interrogation, and Historical Reconstruction: Writing Perpetrator History from Postwar Testimony [Christopher R. Browning]
- 2. Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth [Hayden White]
- 3. On Emplotment: Two Kinds of Ruin [Perry Anderson]
- 4. History, Counterhistory, and Narrative [Amos Funkenstein]
- 5. Just One Witness [Carlo Ginzburg]
- 6. Of Plots, Witnesses, and Judgments [Martin Jay]
- 7. Representing the Holocaust: Reflections on the Historians’ Debate [Dominick LaCapra]
- 8. Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage [Dan Diner]
- 9. History beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma [Eric L. Santner]
- 10. Habermas, Enlightenment, and Antisemitism [Vincent P. Pecora]
- 11. Between Image and Phrase: Progessive History and the “Final Solution” as Dispossession [Sande Cohen]
- 12. Science, Modernity, and the “Final Solution” [Mario Biagioli]
- 13. Holocaust and the End of History: Postmodern Historiography in Cinema [Anton Kaes]
- 14. Whose Story Is It, Anyways? Ideology and Psychology in the Representation of the Shoah in Israeli Literature [Yael S. Feldman]
- 15. Translating Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge”: Rhythm and Repetition as Metaphor [John Felstiner]
- 16. “The Grave in the Air”: Unbound Metaphors in Post-Holocaust Poetry [Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi]
- 17. The Dialectics of Unspeakability: Language, Silence, and the Narratives of Desubjectification [Peter Haidu]
- 18. The Representation of Limits [Berel Lang]
- 19. The Book of the Destruction [Geoffrey H. Hartman]
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
Probing the Limits of Representation
Nazism and the “Final Solution”
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Publication Date: 05/01/1992
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