Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
History and Memory; Studies in Representation of the Past
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,2 (1999) 5-36
Keywords:
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
;
Grossman, David,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
There is an opinion widely accepted by scholars that Hegel cleared a conceptual space amenable to the perpetration of the Holocaust. According to Hegel's philosophy, everything particular (like Jews) must disappear and give way to the general in the historical process. Similarly, historians pursuing Absolute Knowledge must ignore a particularity such as the Holocaust. Scholars rejecting this philosophy have moved away from attempts to construct historical master-narratives of the Holocaust to the production of a plurality of narratives. Memorializing of the Holocaust has superseded its history. However, Hegel also stated that the particular rather than the universal lies in the historical domain, and that the particular in history is already universal. Illustrates this with David Grossman's novel "See under: Love, " in which the only way to reach Absolute Knowledge of the Holocaust proved to be "The Complete Encyclopedia of Kazik's Life, " narrating the fate of a boy - an individual victim of the genocide.
Note:
Includes a discussion of David Grossman's "See Under: Love".
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Appeared also in his "Traumatic Encounters" (2003).
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