05/18/18 HC654 Nazism and the Holocaust | University of Brighton Reading Lists HC654 Nazism and the Holocaust (2016/17) View Online 222 items Course administration (1 items) Tutors: Tom Bunyard and Eugene Michail Co-ordinator: Eugene Michail, room 411 Pavilion Parade, [email protected] Credits: 25 Assessment: (See the Student Handbook for full details) Weekly seminar attendance, participation and one presentation Two essays of approximately 1,800-2,000 words One three-hour unseen examination in term 9, entailing three answers from a choice of five questions covering the content of terms 7 and 8 together Unit description (1 items) This course focuses on the Jewish Holocaust, the starting point for modern studies of genocide and mass killing. The course's central questions are two: why did the Holocaust happen, and how are we supposed to deal with its legacy? For answers it looks both at the level of wide and long-term frameworks and patterns (e.g. racism, fascism, modernity, the Enlightenment), and at the more immediate, personal level of experiences and dilemmas of the perpetrators, the victims, the bystanders and the survivors. The course's aim is to help students make sense of the Holocaust in a way that is relevant to contemporary concerns about war, violence, racism and nationalism. The next term will open the debate on the wider study of modern mass killing and genocide, from the start of the 20th century to today. Learning objectives (1 items) Through the course students acquire skills and knowledge that allow them to: identify and critique the phenomena of Racism, Fascism, Nationalism, and Genocide. engage critically with all major contemporary debates on the perpetration and the memory of the Holocaust 1/22
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05/18/18 HC654 Nazism and the Holocaust | University of Brighton Reading Lists
HC654 Nazism and the Holocaust(2016/17)
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Course administration (1 items)
Tutors: Tom Bunyard and Eugene Michail
Co-ordinator: Eugene Michail, room 411 Pavilion Parade, [email protected]
Credits: 25
Assessment: (See the Student Handbook for full details) Weekly seminar attendance,participation and one presentation Two essays of approximately 1,800-2,000 words Onethree-hour unseen examination in term 9, entailing three answers from a choice of fivequestions covering the content of terms 7 and 8 together
Unit description (1 items)
This course focuses on the Jewish Holocaust, the starting point for modern studies ofgenocide and mass killing. The course's central questions are two: why did the Holocausthappen, and how are we supposed to deal with its legacy? For answers it looks both at thelevel of wide and long-term frameworks and patterns (e.g. racism, fascism, modernity, theEnlightenment), and at the more immediate, personal level of experiences and dilemmasof the perpetrators, the victims, the bystanders and the survivors.
The course's aim is to help students make sense of the Holocaust in a way that isrelevant to contemporary concerns about war, violence, racism and nationalism. The nextterm will open the debate on the wider study of modern mass killing and genocide, fromthe start of the 20th century to today.
Learning objectives (1 items)
Through the course students acquire skills and knowledge that allow them to:
identify and critique the phenomena of Racism, Fascism, Nationalism, and Genocide.
engage critically with all major contemporary debates on the perpetration and the memoryof the Holocaust
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have a good understanding of modern European and especially German history
find and use different types of primary sources
combine and apply the interdisciplinary methodologies they have been trained tothroughout their degree, drawing upon historical inquiry, philosophy, and considerations ofvisual and literary representation
Key readings and sources (24 items)
The sources below offer a good introduction to the topics of the course. They are also agood starting point for your research projects, as they cover all major debates and theycan direct you to further new sources.
Academic journals (1 items)
Use the University of Brighton Library search engine Onesearch to explore the onlinesources on offer. Two journals focused on our topic are Holocaust and Genocide Studies & Journal of Genocide Research . See also the more thematic-specific Fascism and Nationsand Nationalism journals.
Edited collections and general introductions (9 items)
These books offer a good overview of the field of Holocaust studies today:
The destruction of the European Jews - Raul Hilberg, 2012Book
The Holocaust - Frank McDonough, John Cochrane, c2008Book
The final solution: a genocide - Donald Bloxham, 2009Book
The historiography of the Holocaust - Dan Stone, 2004Book
The Holocaust: origins, implementation, aftermath - Omer Bartov, 2000Book
The Holocaust: origins, implementation, aftermath - Omer Bartov, MyiLibrary, 2000Book
The Holocaust: a reader - Simone Gigliotti, Berel Lang, 2005
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Book
Uniqueness, Comparison and the Politics of MemoryChapter
Important texts (12 items)
The following books have played a key role in the way modern societies make sense of theHolocaust. If Anne Frank's diary was important for your schoolyears, then these are theall-important readings for your university years:
Modernity and the holocaust - Zygmunt Bauman, 1989Book
Dialectic of enlightenment - Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, 1997Book
The drowned and the saved - Primo Levi, 1989Book
Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil - Hannah Arendt, 2006Book
Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil - Hannah Arendt, 1994Book
Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil - Hannah Arendt, 1977Book
The complete Maus - Art Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, 2003Book
Maus: a survivor's tale - Art Spiegelman, 1987Book
Maus: a survivor's tale - Art Spiegelman, c1986Book
Maus: a survivor's tale - Art Spiegelman, 1991Book
Maus: a survivor's tale - Art Spiegelman, Vladek Spiegelman, c1991Book
Primary sources (1 items)
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'Primary Source' is any source of information that was created at the time you areresearching: parliamentary records and government publications; surveys and polls;contemporary essays and monographs; oral accounts, letters, diaries and memoirs;records of organizations; minutes from trials and legal documents; contemporary fiction,literature, art and films; newspapers, journals and magazines; propaganda (books,speeches, posters etc); photographs; architecture; objects etc.
You are encouraged to consider using primary sources for your presentations and essays.At the same time you need to be aware of any limitations of your sources: How were theyproduced and by whom? Whom and what do they represent? What is their angle and aim?What do they leave out?
In searching for primary sources you should look as widely as you can, in libraries andarchives. Also look at what sources other historians use. Some online databases are:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive hosted by US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Yad Vashem's Holocaust Resource Center
Germany's Digital Picture Archives of the Federal Archives [in English]
A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust Resources
EuroDocs Holocaust Primary Documents
SOPADE: secret reports of the German SDP (mainstream socialist party) in exile, 1939-1948 [in German]
Internet Archive is an online library of all important old books
Topic One (8 items)
lecture: Fascism
seminar: Did fascism rise due to the particular circumstances of interwar Europe ORbecause of some longer term historical causes?
workshop on primary sources: What is Fascism? Look at the three primary sources below.How are we supposed to examine them, what questions should we ask them, and how dothey help us answer our main question: What is Fascism? What problems do you face inyour examination of the sources? - 'The Manifesto of the Fascist Struggle', Il Popolo d'Italia (6 June 1919)- Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, Doctrine of Fascism (1932), introduction.- George Orwell, 'What is Fascism?', Tribune (24 March 1944)
Dynamic of destruction: culture and mass killing in the First World War - Alan Kramer,
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2007Chapter | Key | Conclusion pp 328-338. Kramer explores the First World War’s
brutalising effects on Europe
Dynamic of destruction: culture and mass killing in the First World War - Alan Kramer,2007
Book | Key | Conclusion pp 328-338. Kramer explores the First World War’s brutalisingeffects on Europe
Fascism as the product of “crisis” - Geoff EleyChapter | Key | Eley looks at the conditions of interwar crisis that allowed fascism to
rise.
Fascists - Mann, Michael, 2004Chapter | Key | ch.1 ‘A sociology of Fascist Movements’. Mann on the baffling question:
who supports the fascists?
German History before Hitler: The Debate about the German Sonderweg - Jurgen Kocka,1988
Article | Key | An assessment of the main opinions on whether German history has apeculiar trajectory (Sonderweg)
A new type of generic fascism - Roger GriffinWebpage | Key | Griffin’s definition of fascism is still the most respected one
The nature of fascism - Roger Griffin, 1993Book | Key | Chapter 2 A new type of generic fascism
further reading for Topic One (13 items)
The fascism reader - Aristotle A. Kallis, 2003Book | Further
The anatomy of fascism - Robert O. Paxton, 2005Book | Further
Fascism: a very short introduction - Kevin Passmore, 2002Book | Further
Fascism: a history - Roger Eatwell, 2003Book | Further
Fascism: a history - Roger Eatwell, 1996Book | Further
Fascism: past, present, future - Walter Laqueur, 1996Book | Further
Fascism - Roger Griffin, 1995Book | Further
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Modernism and fascism: the sense of a beginning under Mussolini and Hitler - Roger Griffin, 2007
Book | Further
Social change and political development in Weimar Germany - Richard Bessel, E. J.Feuchtwanger, c1981
Book | Further
Weimar culture: the outsider as insider - Peter Gay, 1981, c1968Book | Further
Weimar culture: the outsider as insider - Peter Gay, 1969Book | Further
Twentieth-century Germany: politics, culture and society 1918-1990 - Mary Fulbrook, 2001Book | Further
Decentering Comparative Fascist Studies - Roger Griffin, 2015Article | Further
Topic Two (8 items)
lecture: Othering: Nationalism, Racism, and Antisemitism
seminar: Why does antisemitism occupy such a central and violent place in modernEuropean history?
workshop on primary sources: Who is a Racist? Can we produce a convincing and usefuldefinition of Racism? The primary sources below are from the first half of the 20th century.Your role is to find in the contemporary news-media examples of what you consider asracist language and images from today's Britain – print them out and bring them in class.We will put all the sources together and, comparing them, we will examine whetherRacism has always been the same- Jean Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew (1995), 7-22 [originally published 1945]- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion [Originally published in Russia in 1903; in English in1919]- Henry Ford, 'The Jew in Character and Business', The Dearborn Independent (22 May1920)- National Socialist Racial Laws: i. Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health, of July 14,1933; ii. The Reich Citizenship Law, of September 15, 1935; iii. First Regulation to theReich Citizenship Law, of November 14, 1935; iv. Law for the Protection of German Bloodand German Honor, of September 15, 1935
film night: Fritz Hippler, The Eternal Jew (1940)
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Race and nation: an intellectual history - Eric WeitzChapter | Key | an overview of the intellectual history of the key concepts of race,
nation and ethnicity
Definitions - Ernest GellnerChapter | This should be useful in explaining the violent side of nationalism.
Genocide and fascism: the eliminationist drive in fascist Europe - Aristotle A. Kallis, 2009Book | Chapter 4 'Imagining elimination: Fascist ideologies, the construction of the
“Other”, and the “License to Hate” pp 113-138. – Is fascism inherently Genocidal? Kallisoffers his take on this key question.
A world without Jews: the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide - Alon Confino,2014
Book | Key | Introduction ‘A Nazi tale of Germans, Jews and Time’. Confino explores theways in which we can make sense of German antisemitism
A world without Jews: the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide - Alon Confino,2014
Book | Key | Introduction ‘A Nazi tale of Germans, Jews and Time’. Confino explores theways in which we can make sense of German antisemitism
Reconceiving Central Aspects of the Holocaust - Daniel GoldhagenChapter | Key | One of the most controversial theses ever articulated about the origins
of the Holocaust
Hitler's willing executioners: ordinary Germans and the Holocaust - Daniel JonahGoldhagen, 1997
Book | Key | Daniel Goldhagen, introduction in ‘Reconceiving Central Aspects of theHolocaust. One of the most controversial theses ever articulated about the origins of theHolocaust
further reading for Topic Two (18 items)
Theories of race and racism - Les Back, John Solomos, 2007Book | Further
Theories of Race and Racism - Back, LesBook | Further
The racial state: Germany 1933-1945 - Michael Burleigh, Wolfgang Wippermann, 1991Book | Further
Death and deliverance: 'euthanasia' in Germany c. 1900-1945 - Michael BurleighBook | Further
Anti-semitism in times of crisis - Sander L. Gilman, Steven T. Katz, c1991Book | Further
The Holocaust and antisemitism: a short history - Jocelyn Hellig, c2003Book | Further
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The Holocaust and antisemitism: a short history - Jocelyn Hellig, Dawsonera, c2003Book | Further
Zionism and anti-semitism in Nazi Germany - Francis R. Nicosia, 2010Book | Further
Nationalism: theory, ideology, history - Anthony D. Smith, 2001Book | Further
The myth of race: the troubling persistence of an unscientific idea - Robert W. Sussman,2014
Book | Further
From Antisemitic Peripheries to Antisemitic Centres: The Place of Antisemitism in ModernGerman History - O. Heilbronner, 2000-10-01
Article | Further
"German Jews," "National Jews," "Jewish Volk" or "Racial Jews"? The Constitution andContestation of "Jewishness" in Newspapers of Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 - ThomasPegelow, 2002
Article | Further
Antisemitism in the modern world: an anthology of texts - Richard Simon Levy, c1991Book | Further
Anti-Judaism: the Western tradition - David Nirenberg, 2014Book | Further
The politics of cultural despair: a study in the rise of the Germanic ideology - Fritz Stern,1974
Book | Further
The politics of cultural despair: a study in the rise of the Germanic ideology - Fritz Stern,1965
Book | Further
The crisis of German ideology: intellectual origins of the Third Reich - George L. Mosse,1998
Book | Further
The crisis of German ideology: intellectual origins of the Third Reich - George L. Mosse,1966
Book | Further
Topic Three (7 items)
lecture: Perpetrators
seminar: Who were the 'ordinary Germans', and what choices did they have during the
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Holocaust?
Workshop on essay drafting: This is a group exercise, aimed at helping you build strongessay plans and drafts: come along with an outline on the following points on your essay: a) titleb) argumentc) the rationale of your structure and your main pointsd) main debates that dominate your field and that you engage with. In class you will beasked to share the above points with your colleagues, who will then offer their feedback onthem.
The historical debate on the Holocaust - Frank McDonoughChapter | Key | An overview of all major debates on the immediate causes of the
Holocaust.
Structure and Agency in the Holocaust: Daniel J. Goldhagen and His Critics - A. D. Moses,1998
Article | Key | Should we blame the political or other structures for the Holocaust or dideach individual have the ultimate responsibility?
Ordinary Men - Christopher R BrowningChapter | Key
Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland - ChristopherR. Browning, 2001
Book | Key | pp 159-189. The most thorough exploration of the reasons why individualsoldiers and paramilitaries participated in the killings
The Holocaust: origins, implementation, aftermath - Omer Bartov, 2000Book | Key | from the war Diary of Blutordensträger Felix Landau, ‘Once Again I ‘ve got
to play general to the Jews’ pp 185-203. A glimpse of the mind of the perpetrator
The Holocaust: origins, implementation, aftermath - Omer Bartov, MyiLibrary, 2000Book | Key | from the war Diary of Blutordensträger Felix Landau, ‘Once Again I've got
to play general to the Jews’ pp 185-203. A glimpse of the mind of the perpetrator
further reading for Topic Three (14 items)
The Nazi Germany sourcebook: an anthology of texts - Roderick Stackelberg, Sally A.Winkle, 2002
Book | Further
The Nazi Germany sourcebook: an anthology of texts - Roderick Stackelberg, Sally AWinkle, MyiLibrary, 2002
Book | Further
Defining Enemies, Making Victims: Germans, Jews, and the Holocaust - Omer Bartov, 1998Article | Further
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The origins of the final solution: the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March1942 - Christopher R. Browning,JurgenMatthaus, Yadva-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoahvela-gevurah, 2005
Book | Further
A nation on trial: the Goldhagen thesis and historical truth - Norman G. Finkelstein, RuthBettina Birn, 1998
Book | Further
The destruction of the European Jews - Raul Hilberg, 2012Book | Further
The Nazi dictatorship: problems and perspectives of interpretation - Ian Kershaw, 2000Book | Further
The Nazi dictatorship: problems and perspectives of interpretation - Ian Kershaw, 1993Book | Further
Studying the Holocaust: issues, readings and documents - Ronnie S. Landau, 1998Book | Further
Studying the Holocaust: issues, readings, and documents - Ronnie S Landau, MyiLibrary,1998
Book | Further
The Holocaust in history - Michael Robert Marrus, 2000Book | Further
Unwilling Germans?: the Goldhagen debate - Robert R. Shandley, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,c1998
Book | Further
Becoming evil: how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing - James Waller,2007
Book | Further
Becoming evil: how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing - James Waller,2002
Book | Further
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Topic Four (10 items)
lecture: Victims
seminar: What are the benefits of studying the Holocaust through the eyes of the victims?
workshop: Primo Levi was a survivor who, along with the recently deceased Elie Wiesel,wrote some of the most famous reflections on the Holocaust. In the essay below Leviproposes that the concentration camps were a moral 'Grey Zone'. But what is he trying toachieve through this formulation and do you agree with his analysis? Read the 'The greyzone', below, from his The Drowned and the Saved.
film night: Claude Lanzmann, Shoah (1985)
Writing the Holocaust: identity, testimony, representation -Zoe Waxman, 2006
Book | Key | Writing to Survive pp 50-87. Waxman explores why the victims wanted towrite and tell their story even as the Holocaust was unfolding
Writing the Holocaust: identity, testimony, representation -Zoe Waxman, 2006
Book | Key | Writing to Survive pp 50-87. Waxman explores why the victims wanted towrite and tell their story even as the Holocaust was unfolding
Holocaust Perpetrators in Victims’ Eyes - Mark RosemanChapter | Key | After a short reflection on the role of victims in historiography, Roseman
makes an expert primary source analysis.
Perpetrators, victims, bystanders: the Jewish catastrophe, 1933-1945 - Raul Hilberg, 1993Book | Key
Beyond the Conceivable: The Judernat as borderline experience - Dan DinerChapter | Key | Diner analyses the moral dilemmas of the Jewish councils of the ghettos.
The Unadjusted - R. HilbergChapter | Key
A Place for Moral Life? - T. TodorovChapter | Key
Facing the extreme: moral life in the concentration camps - Tzvetan Todorov, 1997Book | Key | ‘A place for moral life?’. pp 31-43. Is there a space for morality in the
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concentration camp?
The Grey Zone - Primo LeviChapter | Key
further reading for Topic Four (10 items)
The Order of Terror - Wolfgang Sofsky, May 17, 1999Book | Further
Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust - Michael R. Marrus, 1995Article | Further
Auschwitz and after - Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont, 1995Book | Further
At the mind's limits: contemplations by a survivor on Auschwitz and its realities - JeanAmery, c1980
Book | Further
Approaching an Auschwitz survivor: Holocaust testimony and its transformations -JurgenMatthaus, 2009
Book | Further
Ethics in an age of terror and genocide: identity and moral choice - Kristen R. Monroe,c2012
Book | Further
Remnants of Auschwitz: the witness and the archive - Giorgio Agamben, c1999Book | Further
After the holocaust: Jewish survivors in Germany after 1945 - Eva Kolinsky, 2004Book | Further
Considering Maus: approaches to Art Spiegelman's 'survivor's tale' of the Holocaust -Deborah R. Geis, 2007
Book | Further
Hidden holocaust?: gay and lesbian persecution in Germany 1933-45 -Gunter Grau, Claudia Schoppmann, 1995
Book | Further
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Topic Five (7 items)
lecture: Postwar Legacy and Memory
seminar: How have postwar politics affected the development of the memory of theHolocaust? Discuss in relation to Germany and Israel.
workshop on analysing visual and literary representations in popular culture: Come toclass with examples of popular culture references to the Holocaust from at least threedifferent genres of primary sources: films, novels, political debates on international affairs,monuments etc. Critically analyse the references (their aims, their meanings, theiraudiences, their effectiveness etc). In preparation, watch Stuart Hall's Representation &the Media, a very short video-introduction to the basic rules of analysing 'representations'of events in popular culture from one of th leading experts of the field.
The case for Israel - Alan M. Dershowitz, 2004Book | Key | Chapter 7. Have the Jews exploited the Holocaust?. Dershowitz is a famous
lawyer, supporter of the case of the modern state of Israel
The case for Israel - Alan M. Dershowitz, Dawsonera, 2003Book | Key | Chapter 7. Have the Jews exploited the Holocaust?. Dershowitz is a famous
lawyer, supporter of the case of the modern state of Israel
Hoaxers, hucksters and history - Norman FinkelsteinChapter | Key | Chapter 7 of The Holocaust industry: reflections on the exploitation of
Jewish suffering. Finkelstein has been seen as the antithesis of Deshowitz
The Holocaust industry: reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering - Norman G.Finkelstein, c2003
Book | Key | Chapter 2 Hoaxers, hucksters and history. Finkelstein has been seen as theantithesis of Deshowitz
Interview With Prof. James E. YoungWebpage | Key | Young is a leading scholar on the memory of the Holocaust and
especially public memorials
Nazism, Politics and the Image of the Past: Thoughts on the West German Historikerstreit1986-1987 - Geoff Eley, 1988
Article | Key | In the 1980s German historians started a long and bitter debate(Historikerstreit) on how modern Germany should make sense of its Nazi past. It lasteduntil the end of the 1990s
further reading for Topic Five (12 items)
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The politics of memory in postwar Europe - Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, ClaudioFogu, 2006
Book | Further
The politics of memory in postwar Europe - Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, ClaudioFogu, 2006
Book | Further
Confronting the Nazi past: new debates on modern German history - Michael Burleigh,1996
Book | Further
Confronting the Nazi past: new debates on modern German history - Michael Burleigh,1996
Book | Further
The holocaust and the historians - Lucy S. Dawidowicz, 1981Book | Further
In Hitler's shadow: West German historians and the attempt to escape from the Nazi past -Richard J. Evans, 1989
Book | Further
In Hitler's shadow: West German historians and the attempt to escape from the Nazi past -Richard J. Evans, c1989
Book | Further
Beyond chutzpah: on the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history - Norman G.Finkelstein, 2005
Book | Further
German national identity after the Holocaust - Mary Fulbrook, 1999Book | Further
Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, 1945-2000: German strategies and Jewishresponses - Dan Mikhman, c2002
Book | Further
The Holocaust and collective memory: the American experience - Peter Novick, 2000Book | Further
Israel's Holocaust and the politics of nationhood - Idith Zertal, 2005Book | Further
Topic Six (3 items)
lecture: The Uniqueness Debate
seminar 1: Is the Holocaust Unique?
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Neil Levi and Mark Rothberg (eds.), 'Part XI: Uniqueness, Comparison and the Politics ofMemory', in The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2010) [library & online pdf] see below
seminar 2: Evaluate Brecher's argument
Bob Brecher, 'Understanding the Holocaust: The Uniqueness Debate', Radical Philosophy,96, (1999) [online]
Part XI: Uniqueness, Comparison and the Politics of MemoryChapter | Key | Seminar 1 reading
Understanding the Holocaust: The Uniqueness Debate - Bob BrecherArticle | Key
further reading for Topic Six (9 items)
The holocaust and the historians - Lucy S. Dawidowicz, 1981Book | Further
Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory - Deborah E. Lipstadt,1994
Book | Further
Is the Holocaust unique?: perspectives on comparative genocide - Alan S. Rosenbaum,2001
Book | Further
The Holocaust and other genocides: history, representation, ethics - Helmut Walser Smith,2002
Book | Further
Hidden holocaust?: gay and lesbian persecution in Germany 1933-45 -Gunter Grau, Claudia Schoppmann, 1995
Book | Further
Hidden from history: reclaiming the gay and lesbian past - Martin Bauml Duberman,Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey, 1991
Book | Further | E. Haeberle, ‘Swastika, Pink triangle and Yellow Star’
Echoes from the Holocaust: philosophical reflections on a dark time - Alan Rosenberg,Gerald E. Myers, 1988
Book | Further | G.M. Kren, ‘The Holocaust as History’
The Uniqueness of the Holocaust - Avishai Margalit and Gabriel Motzkin, 1996Article | Further
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Thinking the unthinkable: meanings of the Holocaust - Roger S. Gottlieb, c1990Book | Further | J. Ringelheim, ‘Thoughts about Women and the Holocaust’
Topic Seven (2 items)
lecture: 'Only following orders': Arendt on the 'banality of evil'
seminar 1: Is Arendt right about Eichmann?
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
seminar 2: What is the relation between Arendt's notions of 'radical evil' and the 'banalityof evil'?
Richard Bernstein, ch.8 'Arendt: Radical Evil and the Banality of Evil', in Radical Evil: APhilosophical Interrogation (2002), 205-224
Arendt: Radical Evil and the Banality of Evil - R. BernsteinChapter | Key
further reading for Topic Seven (14 items)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil - Hannah Arendt, 2006Book | Further | Postscript
Thinking the unthinkable: meanings of the Holocaust - Roger S. Gottlieb, c1990Book | Further | Postscript from Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem
The origins of totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt, c2004Book | Further
The origins of totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt, 1973Book | Further
Hannah Arendt and the Jewish question - Richard J. Bernstein, 1996Book | Further
Morality: learning from the Holocaust - Bob BrecherChapter | Further
Remembering for the future: working papers and addenda - Yehuda Bauer, 1989Book | Further | Bob Brecher, ‘Morality: Learning from the Holocaust’
Eichmann: his life and crimes - David Cesarani, 2005Book | Further
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Eichmann: his life and crimes - David Cesarani, 2004Book | Further
Journal of applied philosophy - Society for Applied PhilosophyJournal | Further | Douglas Lackey, ‘Extraordinary Evil or Common Malevolence:
Evaluating the Jewish Holocaust’ Journal of Applied Philosophy, 3/2 (1986), 151–287
The drowned and the saved - Primo Levi, 1989Book | Further | The grey area
Thinking the unthinkable: meanings of the Holocaust - Roger S. Gottlieb, c1990Book | Further | Jean Paul Sartre, ‘The Anti-Semite’
Arendt's theory of totalitarianism - Margaret CanovanWebpage | Further
The Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt - Dana Richard Villa, 2000Book | Further | Margaret Canovan, ‘Arendt's theory of totalitarianism’
Topic Eight (9 items)
lecture: Holocaust Denial, Free Speech and Anti-Fascism
seminar 1: What are the limits of Free Speech?
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty [originally published in 1859], chapter 2 [library & online]
Chin Liew Ten, ch.8 'Freedom of Expression', in Mill on Liberty (1980), [library & online pdf]
Dave Hann, Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism (2013), chapter two: 'ACause Worth Fighting For, 1935-1940' (below)
seminar 2: How does anti-fascism relate to issues of free speech?
Video: AFA, Fighting Talk (1992) [online]
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925),chapter eight: 'The Struggle with the Red Front', availableat http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv2ch07.html
A Cause Worth Fighting For, 1935-1940 - Dave HannChapter
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Mill, John Stuart. 1869. On LibertyWebpage | Key | Chapter 2
On liberty - John Stuart Mill, Gertrude Himmelfarb, 1974Book | Key | Chapter 2
Freedom of expression - C.L. TenChapter | Key | Chapter 8 in Mill on Liberty
Freedom of Expression - C.L. TenChapter | Key | Chapter 8
Antifa - Fighting Talk (1992) - 5/3/2011Audio-visual document | Key
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler, Donald Cameron Watt, 1992Book | Key | Chapter 7 The Struggle with the Red Front
Mein Kampf - Volume II, Chapter VIIWebpage | Key
further reading for Topic Eight (7 items)
Excitable speech: a politics of the performative - Judith Butler, 1997Book | Further
Free speech - Alan Haworth, 1998Book | Further
On liberty - John Stuart Mill, Gertrude Himmelfarb, 1974Book | Further
On liberty and other essays - John Stuart Mill, John Gray, John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill,John Stuart Mill, 1991
Book | Further
Mill on liberty - C. L. Ten, 1980Book | Further
Denying history: who says the Holocaust never happened and why do they say it? -Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman, 2000
Book | Further
Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory - Deborah E. Lipstadt,1994
Book | Further
Topic Nine (4 items)
lecture: Modernity and the Holocaust
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seminar 1: To what extent can we understand the Holocaust to be a product of modernity?
Bob Cannon, 'Towards a Theory of Counter-Modernity: Rethinking Zygmunt Bauman'sHolocaust Writings', in Critical Sociology, 41 (2014)
Zygmunt Bauman, ch.4 'The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust', in Modernity andthe Holocaust (1989), 83-116
seminar 2: What is Adorno and Horkheimer's argument concerning the relation betweenenlightenment and barbarism?
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, ch.1, 'The Concept of Enlightenment', Dialectic ofEnlightenment (1997)
The uniqueness and normality of the Holocaust - Zygmunt BaumanChapter | Key | Zygmunt Bauman, chapter 4 ‘The Uniqueness and Normality of the
Holocaust
The Concept of EnlightenmentChapter | Key
Towards a Theory of Counter-Modernity: Rethinking Zygmunt Baumans Holocaust Writings- B. Cannon, 2016-01-01
Article | Key
further reading for Topic Nine (12 items)
The origins of totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt, c2004Book | Further
Dialectic of enlightenment: philosophical fragments - Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno,Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, 2002
Book | Further
Dialectic of enlightenment - Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, 1997Book | Further
The Holocaust: origins, implementation, aftermath - Omer Bartov, 2000Book | Further
The Holocaust: origins, implementation, aftermath - Omer Bartov, MyiLibrary, 2000Book | Further
Humanity: a moral history of the twentieth century - Jonathan Glover, 2001Book | Further | Especially chapters 1 and 2
Humanity: a moral history of the twentieth century - Jonathan Glover, 2001
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Book | Further | Especially chapters 1 and 2
The gay science: with a prelude in German rhymes and an appendix of songs - FriedrichNietzsche, Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, 2001
Book | Further | Section 125
The gay science - Friedrich NietzscheBook | Further | Section 125
Human, All Too Human: Beyond Good and Evil: Friedrich NietzscheAudio-visual document | Further
Modernism and eugenics - Marius Turda, 2010Book | Further
Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German idealism, and modernity - Martin Shuster,2014
Book | Further
Topic Ten (1 items)
lecture: Representing the Holocaust
seminar 1: Can the Holocaust be represented? What issues and difficulties are involved inattempts to do so?
Ann Richardson, 'The Ethical Limits of Holocaust Representation', in eSharp, 5 (2005)available at http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_41171_en.pdf
seminar 2: Critically evaluate Sanbonmatsu's argument that the Holocaust is often cast assublime
John Sanbonmatsu, 'The Holocaust Sublime: Singularity, Representation, and the Violenceof Everyday Life', in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 68/1 (2008)[online]
further reading for Topic Eleven (27 items)
The Holocaust: theoretical readings - Neil Levi, Michael Rothberg, c2003Book | Further | Theodor Adorno, ‘Meditations on Metaphysics’
The Holocaust and Problems of Historical Representation - Robert Braun, 1994-05Article | Further
Watching Schindler's List: Not the Last Word - Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann, 1997-21Article | Further
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Probing the limits of representation - Saul FriedlanderBook | Further
Todesfuge - Paul Celan, Theo Buck, 1999Book | Further
The Holocaust: theoretical readings - Neil Levi, Michael Rothberg, c2003Book | Further | Part VII ‘Literature and Culture after Auschwitz’
If this is a man: The truce - Primo Levi, Primo Levi, 1987Book | Further
If this is a man: The truce - Primo Levi, Primo Levi, 2013Book | Further
Is It Possible to Misrepresent the Holocaust? - Berel Lang, 1995-02Article | Further
Writing and the Holocaust - Berel Lang, Aron Appelfeld, 1988Book | Further
Art from the ashes: a Holocaust anthology - Lawrence L. Langer, 1995Book | Further
Art from the ashes: a Holocaust anthology - Lawrence L. Langer, 1995Book | Further
The holocaust and the literary imagination - Lawrence L. Langer, 1975Book | Further
The Holocaust and the text: speaking the unspeakable - Andrew Leak, George Paizis,University of London. Institute of Romance Studies, University of London. Institute forEnglish Studies, Wiener Library, 2000
Book | Further
A double dying: reflections on holocaust literature - Alvin H. Rosenfeld, 1980Book | Further
Traumatic realism: the demands of holocaust representation - Michael Rothberg, c2000Book | Further | Especially chapters 1, 2 and 5
The complete Maus - Art Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, 2003Book | Further
Maus: a survivor's tale - Art Spiegelman, 1987Book | Further
Maus: a survivor's tale - Art Spiegelman, c1986Book | Further
Maus: a survivor's tale - Art Spiegelman, 1991Book | Further
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Maus: a survivor's tale - Art Spiegelman, Vladek Spiegelman, c1991Book | Further
Holocaust fiction - Sue Vice, 2000Book | Further
Holocaust fiction - Sue Vice, Dawsonera, 2000Book | Further
Writing the Holocaust: identity, testimony, representation -Zoe Waxman, 2006
Book | Further
Schindler's list - Steven Spielberg, Thomas Keneally, 2005Audio-visual document
Shoah: a film by Claude Lanzmann - Claude Lanzmann, 2010Audio-visual document
The producers - Mel Brooks, 2007Audio-visual document
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