Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany emphasizes the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, but does not neglect the pragmatic conditions of aesthetic and intellectual production—most notably, the felt need to respond to the breach in tradition caused by the Holocaust. The book thereby illuminates the process by which a set of writers and intellectuals, instead of trying to mend what they perceived as a radical break in historical continuity or corroborating the myth of a "new beginning," searched for ways to make this historical rupture rhetorically and semantically discernible and literally audible.
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany emphasizes the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, but does not neglect the pragmatic conditions of aesthetic and intellectual production—most notably, the felt need to respond to the breach in tradition caused by the Holocaust. The book thereby illuminates the process by which a set of writers and intellectuals, instead of trying to mend what they perceived as a radical break in historical continuity or corroborating the myth of a "new beginning," searched for ways to make this historical rupture rhetorically and semantically discernible and literally audible.
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
248Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
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ISBN-13: | 9780801479632 |
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Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Publication date: | 12/12/2014 |
Series: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought |
Pages: | 248 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |