Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
History and Memory; Studies in Representation of the Past
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,2 (2000) 7-28
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Discusses the forms that Holocaust memory takes amongst the generation born after the Holocaust, which is therefore dependent on its representation in the works of artists, scholars, ideologues, etc. The Holocaust as a historical event seems to be incomprehensible, unspeakable, a tremendum, and thus writers and scholars try to perceive it rather than understand it. Turning to classical Enlightenment aesthetic theory, shows why contemporary critics (Dominick LaCapra, Michael A. Bernstein, etc.) contest Holocaust memory that assumes the language of sublimity, and why they adopt a style that Mendelssohn and Schiller called "naive." The naivete in contemporary Holocaust representation is not simplicity as opposed to art, but an attempt to create an illusion of simplicity.
Note:
About Holocaust commemoration.
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