Social Theory After the Holocaust

by Fine, Robert; Turner, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780853239659
• ISBN10: 0853239657
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

This collection of essays explores the character and quality of the Holocaust's impact and the abiding legacy it has left for social theory. The premise which informs the contributions is that, ten years after its publication, Zygmunt Bauman's claim that social theory has either failed to address the Holocaust or protected itself from its implications remains true.

Author Biography

Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College, London Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick J.M. Bernstein, after nearly a quarter of a century at the University of Essex, is now W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University Robert Fine is Reader in Sociology and is Director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick Heidrun Friese received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam. She held Fellowships at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (ZiF), Bielefeld; the Centre of International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley; the Centre for Studies in Higher Education, University of California at Berkeley; Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen; and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She has published widely on social constructions of time and history, the anthropology of the sciences and on social imagination Anthony Gorman lectures in philosophy at Staffordshire University, where he specialises in the philosophy of Hegel, philosophy of religion, political philosophy and ethics Michael Salter is Professor of Law at the University of Central Lancashire Victor J. Seidler is Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmith's College, University of London David Seymour is Lecturer in Law at the University of Lancaster Dan Stone is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at Royal Holloway, University of London Charles Turner lectures in sociology at the University of Warwick

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Robert Fine
Charles Turner
The Holocaust's Life as a Ghost	7	(12)
Zygmunt Bauman
Hannah Arendt: Politics and Understanding after the Holocaust	19	(28)
Robert Fine
Whither the Broken Middle? Rose and Fackenheim on Mourning, Modernity and the Holocaust	47	(24)
Anthony Gorman
Good against Evil? H.G. Adler, T.W. Adorno and the Representation of the Holocaust	71	(30)
Jeremy Adler
'After Auschwitz': Trauma and the Grammar of Ethics	101	(24)
J.M. Bernstein
Lyotard: Emancipation, Anti-Semitism and 'the Jews'	125	(16)
David Seymour
Eradicating Evil: Levinas, Judaism and the Holocaust	141	(18)
Victor J. Seidler
Silence-Voice-Representation	159	(20)
Heidrun Friese
Friends and Others: Lessing's Die Juden and Nathan der Weise	179	(18)
Andrew Benjamin
The Visibility of the Holocaust: Franz Neumann and the Nuremberg Trials	197	(22)
Michael Salter
Holocaust Testimony and the Challenge to the Philosophy of History	219	(16)
Dan Stone
Open Behind: Myth and Politics	235	(24)
Charles Turner
Notes on Contributors	259	(4)
Name Index	263	(2)
SubjectIndex	265