On Robert Antelme's The Human Race
Author: Robert Antelme
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0810160641
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Author: Robert Antelme
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0810160641
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Author: Robert Antelme
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780810160613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArrested by the Gestapo and deported to Dachau, Robert Antelme recovered his freedom a year later when François Mitterand, visiting the camp in an official capacity, recognized the dying Antelme and had him spirited to Paris. Antelme's story of his experiences in Germany--his only book--indelibly marked an entire generation, "a work written without hatred, a work of boundless compassion such as that is to be found only in the great Russians." Also available: On the Human Race: Essays and Commentary
Author: Martin Crowley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-02
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 135119741X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Best known for his 1947 memoir L'Espece humaine, Robert Antelme (1917-1990) is a central figure in the history of the European response to the Nazi concentration camps. In this first study in any language to be devoted to Antelme's work, Martin Crowley reveals the author's vital yet insufficiently recognized influence on recent thought in France and elsewhere about such questions as the nature of community and the indivisibility of humanity. He explores the conclusions Antelme drew from his deportation and his involvement with the post-war French left, and provides the first detailed textual criticism of L'Espece humaine. Examining the responses to the author's writing by such figures as Blanchot, Perec, Agamben, Nancy and Derrida, Crowley demonstrates Antelme's key contribution to the development of modern European thought."
Author: Martin Crowley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest known for his 1947 memoir L'Espece humaine, Robert Antelme is a central figure in the history of the European response to the Nazi concentration camps. In this study, Crowley demonstrates Antelme's key contribution to the development of modern European thought.
Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Kofman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780810115057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Smothered Words, the philosopher Sarah Kofman acknowledges her personal history, evoking for the first time in a published work her father's deportation and death in Auschwitz. Kofman juxtaposes readings of the work of Maurice Blanchot, reflections on The Human Race, Robert Antelme's account of his deportation to a German prison (also available from Northwestern University Press), and her recognition of having outlived her father and survived the Holocaust. Her consideration of these three figures and the texts associated with them serves as a meditation on the contrasting imperatives of history, autobiography, and critical writing. Kofman committed suicide in 1995. Smothered Words addresses both the effects on representation of the emotional suffering of the survivors and the ethical questions raised in representing the Holocaust. Kofman explores the relationships and tensions among autobiographical, historical, and philosophical approaches to writing the Holocaust.
Author: Peter Jason Banki
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0823278662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the Holocaust is and will remain impossible, we cannot rest upon that impossibility. Rather, the impossibility of forgiveness must be thought in another way. In an epoch of “worldwidization,” we may not be able simply to escape the violence of scenes and rhetoric that repeatedly portray apology, reconciliation, and forgiveness as accomplishable acts. Accompanied by Jacques Derrida’s thought of forgiveness of the unforgivable, and its elaboration in relation to crimes against humanity, the book undertakes close readings of literary, philosophical, and cinematic texts by Simon Wiesenthal, Jean Améry, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Robert Antelme and Eva Mozes Kor. These texts contend with the idea that the crimes of the Nazis are inexpiable, that they lie beyond any possible atonement or repair. Banki argues that the juridical concept of crimes against humanity calls for a thought of forgiveness—one that would not imply closure of the infinite wounds of the past. How could such a forgiveness be thought or dreamed? Banki shows that if today we cannot simply escape the “worldwidization” of forgiveness, then it is necessary to rethink what forgiveness is, the conditions under which it supposedly takes place, and especially its relation to justice.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9004493255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and literature address the way the Holocaust had led to the reconceptualization of the humanities. The scholarly approaches of Pierre Klossowski, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot are examined critically, and the volume explores such poignant topics as violence, evil, and monuments.
Author: Philip Nord
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1108478905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.
Author: Maurice Blanchot
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780804727594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. This collection of 29 critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy documents the wide range of Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era. Essays are devoted to works of fiction (Louis-René des Forêts, Pierre Klossowski, Roger Laporte, Marguerite Duras), to autobiographies or testimonies (Michel Leiris, Robert Antelme, André Gorz, Franz Kafka), or to authors who are more than ever contemporary (Jean Paulhan, Albert Camus). Several essays focus on questions of Judaism, as expressed in the works of Edmond Jabès, Emmanuel Levinas, and Martin Buber. Among the other topics covered are André Malraux's "imaginary museum," the Pléiade Encyclopedia project of Raymond Queneau, paperback publishing, the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Benjamin's "Task of the Translator," Marx and communism, writings on the Holocaust, and the difference between art and writing. The book concludes with an eloquent invocation to friendship on the occasion of the death of Georges Bataille.