Against a present that places the incomprehensible in the cold storage of history': the representation and experience of limit in Jean Amery and Primo Levi
Title' Against a present that places the incomprehensible in the cold storage of history': the representation and experience of limit in Jean Amery and Primo Levi
Author
Call number940.5318/0593
Object number11617e
Place of publicationLeiden, Netherlands
PublisherBrill
Year of publication
2021
Physical descriptionpp 74-88
MaterialBook
NotesArticle from the book 'Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel : "vergangenheitsbewältigung" as a historical quest' pp 74-88
Description
If the theme of the representation of the dramatic consequences produced by the political and aesthetic order of Nazism has prompted, since the liberation from the extermination camps, a debate around the impossibility or illegitimacy of the representation of such events and of the politics produced by these events, less attention has been paid to the repercussions that Nazism, through its most destructive hypostases, produced in relation to the internal structure of representation. Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the question in these terms