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Beyond the Conceivable
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Beyond the Conceivable

The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author’s belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One can no longer assume that actors as well as historians are operating in the same conceptual universe, sharing the same criteria of rational discourse. This is particularly true of victims and perpetrators, whose memories shape the distortions of historical narrative in ways often diametrically opposed. The essays are divided into three groups. The first group talks about anti-Semitism in the conte...

Lost in the Sacred
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Lost in the Sacred

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Diner sets out to describe why the Arab world changes so slowly, in this controversial but refreshingly un-Anglo-Saxon search for answers to some outsized questions."--(Michael Cook, Princeton University).

Restitution and Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Restitution and Memory

The myriad debates on restitution and memory, which have been going on in Europe for decades, indicate that World War II never ended. It is still very much with us, paradoxically re-invoked by the events of 1989/90 and the expansion of Europe to the east in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and economic globalization. The growing privatization and reprivatization in Eastern Europe revive pre-war memories that lay buried under the blanket of collectivization and nationalization of property after 1945. World War II did not only result in the death and destruction on a large scale but also in an a far-reaching revolution of existing property relations. This volume offers an assessment of the problematic of restitution and its close interconnection with the discourses of memory that have recently emerged.

Probing the Limits of Representation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Probing the Limits of Representation

German memory, judicial interrogation, and historical reconstruction : writing perpetrator history from postwar testimony / Christopher R. Browning -- Historical emplotment and the problem of truth / Hayden White -- On emplotment : two kinds of ruin / Perry Anderson -- History, counterhistory, and narrative / Amos Funkenstein -- Just one witness / Carlo Ginzburg -- Of plots, witnesses, and judgments / Martin Jay -- Representing the Holocaust : reflections on the historians' debate / Dominick LaCapra -- Historical understanding and counterrationality : the Judenrat as epistemological vantage / Dan Diner -- History beyond the pleasure principle : some thoughts on the representation of trauma /...

America in the Eyes of the Germans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

America in the Eyes of the Germans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A practical guide to every major aspect of technology management, merging theory and practice to create a systems approach integrating all technology-related activities from product to implementation. Offers sections on perspectives on management of technology; methodologies, tools and techniques for processes such as forecasting and developing RandD strategy; education and learning; the new-product process; and managing management of technology. Includes case studies. For scientists and engineers, their managers, and business executives. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Insiders and Outsiders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Insiders and Outsiders

Insiders and Outsiders addresses various aspects of Jewish and Gentile interaction since the development of the German-Jewish literary and cultural identity in the early nineteenth century. Containing the work of prominent scholars, critics, and journalists involved with German-Jewish studies from around the world, this ambitious anthology of literary and cultural criticism suggests a reevaluation of important cultural and literary issues, including the problem of cultural diversity with regard to German-speaking countries and the question as to what constitutes German cultural identity in multicultural central Europe. This volume highlights the centrality of the Jewish presence in the heart...

The
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

The "Goldhagen Effect"

Scholars examine Daniel Goldhagen's legacy in the United States, Europe, and Israel

Catastrophe and Meaning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Catastrophe and Meaning

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

History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

History

Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of aspects, factors and developments of historical thinking from the 18th century to the present, thus continuing, in exemplary fashion, the tradition of critical self-reflection in the humanities and looking at historical studies as an important factor of cultural orientation in practical life.

Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 681

Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Written by leading authors in their respective fields, this first comprehensive handbook on the relationship between modern Judaism and historical thinking contributes to a differentiated interpretation of Jewish historiography and its interaction with other academic disciplines since the Enlightenment.