Catastrophe and Meaning

Introduction: Catastrophe and Meaning
Moishe Postone and Eric Santner

PART ONE: HISTORY, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND THE HOLOCAUST
1. Ideology and Extermination: The Immediate Origins of the
"Final Solution"
Saul Friedländer
2. Anti-Semitism as Explanation: For and Against
Shulamit Volkov

PART TWO: THE HOLOCAUST AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
3. "The Abyss that opened up before us": Thinking about Auschwitz and Modernity
Anson Rabinbach
4. The Destruction of Narrativity: The Holocaust in Historical
Discourse
Dan Diner
5. The Holocaust and the Trajectory of the Twentieth Century
Moishe Postone
PART THREE: ANNIHILATION, VICTIMHOOD, IDENTITY
6. "Fields of Glory": War, Genocide, and the Glorification of
Violence
Omer Bartov
7. Stalingrad, Hiroshima, Auschwitz: The Fading of the
Therapeutic Approach
Frank Trommler
8. Agents, Contexts, Responsibilities: The Massacre at Budy
Debórah Dwork
PART FOUR: TRAUMA AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION
9. New Soundings in Holocaust Literature: A Surplus of
Memory
Froma Zeitlin
10. Holocaust Testimonies: Attending to the Victim's Voice
Dominick LaCapra
11. Holocaust and Hope
Geoffrey Hartman
12. Lament's Hope
Paul Mendes-Flohr
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index