Homer, humanism, Holocaust : Jewish responses to the crisis of Enlightenment during World War II /: Jewish responses to the crisis of Enlightenment during World War II. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adam J. Goldwyn.
• Authors: Goldwyn, Adam J
• Contents: Chapter 1 Homer and the Jews on the Cusp of World War 2Chapter 2 Nihilism, Thoughtlessness, and the Bourgeois Odysseus: Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and the Failure of Enlightenment HumanismChapter 3 Reflections on a Damaged Life: Hermann Broch's Mythical Method and Rachel Bespaloff's On the IliadChapter 4 Odysseus' (Memory) Scar: Geoffrey Hartman's Erich Auerbach's OdysseusChapter 5 Hélène Cixous' and Daniel Mendelsohn's Postmemory Scars: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 940.531801; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Philosophy; Jews -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war; Literature and humanism; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031114731
• Related ISBNs: 9783031114724
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