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Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti’s and Franz Baermann Steiner’s Responses to the Shoah

By Michael Mack

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2001
ISBN
3484651342, 9783484651340
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
45 MB (47345570 bytes)
Series
Conditio Judaica
Pages
240\240
Time added
2016-11-07 05:28:34
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Description

Whereas many other post-Holocaust Jewish thinkers - including Derrida - have concentrated on a refusal of totality and celebration of 'otherness', the poet and intellectual Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-1952) combines this emphasis with an equal stress on the 'need' for certain collectively acknowledged limits. Next to the wider significance of this book for discussions of Holocaust studies in relation to current theoretical and social issues, it will also offer a new interpretation of Elias Canetti's work. This is the first detailed examination of Steiner's anthropology and philosophy and its relation to the work of his close intellectual friend Canetti.

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