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Read, look, go: Ethics and dialogue in Holocaust memorial texts.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Read, look, go: Ethics and dialogue in Holocaust memorial texts./
Author:	Remington, Blake William.
Description:	343 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-01A(E).
Subject:	Holocaust studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3719454
ISBN:	9781321998061

Read, look, go: Ethics and dialogue in Holocaust memorial texts.
Remington, Blake William.

Read, look, go: Ethics and dialogue in Holocaust memorial texts. - 343 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Dallas, 2015.

This dissertation juxtaposes the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas with the poetry (and poetics) of Paul Celan in order to investigate the following question: what does it mean to ethically remember the Holocaust? My project concerns the Holocaust as a memory and analyzes what I am calling memorial texts: literary, visual, and architectural representations of the Holocaust whose primary task is to serve a memorial function. The dissertation is divided into two parts, the first of which establishes the theoretical background that then informs the second. In the first chapter of Part I, I explain the relevance of Levinasian ethics to the questions of Holocaust memory by offering an analysis of the concept of the immemorial. The second chapter of Part I focuses on the importance of dialogue both for Celan and for his readers. Part II is organized in response to Celan's poem "Engfuhrung," in the beginning of which we find the following poetic imperatives: "Lies nicht mehr---schau! / Schau nicht mehr---geh!" ("Read no more---look! / Look no more---go!"). These imperatives structure the organization of Part II by delineating its interdisciplinary focus via three modes of experience (reading, viewing, and visiting). Thus, in Chapter 3, I read literature by Celan, Primo Levi, and Dan Pagis; in Chapter 4, I look at photographs and documentary footage as well as Alain Resnais's Nuit et Brouillard and Claude Lanzmann's Shoah; and in Chapter 5, I visit Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin, Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well as the former extermination camp at Auschwitz. By framing my project within a juxtaposition of Levinasian philosophy and Celanian poetics, I identify the ethical dimension of Holocaust remembrance as a function of the responsibility called for by the memorial texts themselves. Reading the philosopher and the poet together provides us with a new ethico-poetic concept of Holocaust memory, which---because it is rooted in the interruptive encounter with the Other and therefore also (and always) dialogic---moves beyond empathic identification with the Other and rejects personal catharsis as the telos of remembering the Holocaust.

ISBN: 9781321998061Subjects--Topical Terms:

3174188
Holocaust studies.

Read, look, go: Ethics and dialogue in Holocaust memorial texts.
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