The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable

Released on by David Patterson
preview-18

  • The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable Book Detail

  • Author : David Patterson
  • Release Date : 2018-05-22
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Genre : Religion
  • Pages : 342
  • ISBN 13 : 1438470061
  • File Size : 10,10 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable by David Patterson PDF Summary

Book Description: Many books focus on issues of Holocaust representation, but few address why the Holocaust in particular poses such a representational problem. David Patterson draws from Emmanuel Levinas's contention that the Good cannot be represented. He argues that the assault on the Good is equally nonrepresentable and this nonrepresentable aspect of the Holocaust is its distinguishing feature. Utilizing Jewish religious thought, Patterson examines how the literary word expresses the ineffable and how the photographic image manifests the invisible. Where the Holocaust is concerned, representation is a matter not of imagination but of ethical implication, not of what it was like but of what must be done. Ultimately Patterson provides a deeper understanding of why the Holocaust itself is indefinable—not only as an evil but also as a fundamental assault on the very categories of good and evil affirmed over centuries of Jewish teaching and testimony.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.