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Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century

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How should we understand the relation of the Holocaust to the broader historical processes of the century just ended? How do we explain the bearing of the Holocaust on problems of representation, memory, memorialization, and historical practice? These are some of the questions explored by an esteemed group of scholars in Catastrophe and Meaning, the most significant multiauthored book on the Holocaust in over a decade.

This collection features essays that consider the role of anti-Semitism in the recounting of the Holocaust; the place of the catastrophe in the narrative of twentieth-century history; the questions of agency and victimhood that the Holocaust inspires; the afterlife of trauma in literature written about the tragedy; and the gaps in remembrance and comprehension that normal historical works fail to notice.

Omer Bartov, Dan Diner, Debòrah Dwork, Saul Friedländer, Geoffrey Hartman, Dominick LaCapra, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Anson Rabinbach, Frank Trommler, Shulamit Volkov, Froma Zeitlin

274 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2003

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Moishe Postone

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Moishe Postone was a Canadian Western Marxist historian, philosopher and political economist. He was Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where he was part of the Committee on Jewish Studies. Moishe Postone, son of a Canadian Rabbi, received his Ph.D. from University of Frankfurt in 1983. His research interests included modern European intellectual history; social theory, especially critical theories of modernity; twentieth-century Germany; anti-Semitism. Postone was the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Modern History and co-director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.

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Πώς ένα μικρό βιβλίο,οπτικά,κρύβει τόσο μεγάλα πράγματα μέσα;!
Και όμως,ένα εξαιρετικό δοκίμιο,το οποίο πρέπει να διαβαστεί όχι μόνο από αυτούς που ασχολούνται με την θεματική του ή είναι Ιστορικοί,αλλά απ'όλους όσους προβληματίζονται για την πορεία των πραγμάτων στο χρόνο,στη διαχρονικότητα,στην επικαιρότητα,αλλά και στη σύνδεση γεγονότων,απόψεων,ιδεών και ό,τι άλλο γεννιέται από τότε που ο άνθρωπος άρχισε να σκέφτεται και να συνδυάζει.
Ο χρόνος δεν παρασύρει τα γεγονότα,ίσα-ίσα σε βοηθά να τα κατανοήσεις καλύτερα.
Με λίγα λόγια "χωρίς την οικειοποίηση του παρελθόντος δεν υπάρχει στοχασμός του μέλλοντος ούτε χειραφέτηση".
Θερμά συγχαρητήρια σε μτφ. Αχιλλέα Φωτάκη και τον επιμελητή Σάββα Μιχαήλ
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