Lyotard's and Derrida's "Catastrophist phenomenology"
TítuloLyotard's and Derrida's "Catastrophist phenomenology"
Autor
Call number940.5318/0344
Número del objeto07204i
Lugar de publicaciónAmsterdam, Netherlands
EditorialRodopi
Año de publicación
2001
Paginaciónpp169-204
MaterialArticle
SerieValue inquiry book series ; v. 108
ISBN9042015055
NotesArticle from the book 'Theoretical interpretations of the Holocaust' pp169-204
Descripción
Representing the Holocaust creates difficulties, first and foremost, because it reverses all traditional, moral, emotional and cognitive expectations. Our means of representation are based upon the presupposition of normal conditions of human action. The language of the event itself is no longer an innocent language, but one that was mobilized to represent an unrepresentable reality