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  • Holocaust Fiction and the Question of Impiety

    by David John Dickson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction. Using Gillian Rose’s theory of Holocaust piety, it argues that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust, contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on gratuitous representations of bodies in pain. The book begins by discussing the locations and imagery which have come to define our understanding ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning

    Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Man's Search for Meaning tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Viktor E. Frankl's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl includes:Historical ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler's Youth - An Analysis of Mein Kampf

    An Analysis of Mein Kampf, #1

    by Isuru Abeysinghe ...
    Series Book 1 - An Analysis of Mein Kampf
    Hitler's autobiographical book Mein Kampf, the official doctrine of the NAZI regime during WWII, is not a book that many would consider to read. Modern society is generally very well acquainted with Hitler and the ultimate outcome of his philosophical stances and will automatically denounce such notions based on a purely humanitarian and moral standpoint. The book remains illegal in many parts of ... Read more

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  • The Generation of Postmemory

    Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

    by Marianne Hirsch ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories-multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Banality of Evil

    Hannah Arendt and 'The Final Solution'

    by Bernard J. Bergen ...
    This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard J. Bergen, the questions that preoccupied Arendt were the meaning and significance of the Nazi genocide to our modern times. As Bergen describes ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Lovers of Philosophy

    How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought

    by Warren Ward ...
    They were Europe's greatest thinkers, but what were they like at love?Lovers of Philosophy explores the love lives of seven philosophers, and how their most intimate experiences came to shape their ideas. In these pages, the reader learns about the significance of Kant's infatuation, Hegel's premarital liaisons, Nietzsche's heartbreak, Heidegger's hypocrisy, Sartre's promiscuous polyamory, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stranger from Abroad

    Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness

    by Daniel Maier-Katkin ...
    Two titans of twentieth-century thought: their lives, loves, ideas, and politics.Shaking up the content and method by which generations of students had studied Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger sought to ennoble man’s existence in relation to death. Yet in a time of crisis, he sought personal advancement, becoming the most prominent German intellectual to join the Nazis.Hannah Arendt, his ... Read more

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  • Maus Now

    Selected Writing

    Edited by Hillary Chute ...
    Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics—including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik—on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus, more than forty years since the ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

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  • After Such Knowledge

    Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's responsibilities to its received memories?In this meditation on the long aftermath of atrocity, Eva ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Silence

    How tragedy shapes talk

    by Ruth Wajnryb ...
    Silence can be a powerful form of communication. It is often the form that communication takes in the wake of unspeakable trauma. After a half a century, the Holocaust still dominates the homes of survivors and their families. Memory haunts and permeates the home, conditioning survivors' thoughts, their behaviour, their responses to their family, their reactions to government and authority. ... Read more

    $13.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind

    Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts

    by Daniel Pick ...
    The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the historian and the trained psychoanalyst to weave together the story of clinical encounters with leading Nazis and the Allies' broader interpretations of the Nazi high command and the mentality of the wider German public who supported ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Reading Auschwitz

    by Mary Lagerwey ...
    Series series Ethnographic Alternatives
    'My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I've heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips through my wool coat. I am very cold, and I imagine what the wind would have felt like for someone here fifty years ago without coat, boots, or gloves. Hours later as I write, I tell myself ... Read more

    $40.49 USD