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Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

其他書名	Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II
出版	Springer Nature, 2022-10-31
主題	History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / GeneralHistory / GeneralReligion / Judaism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Social History
ISBN	30311147369783031114731
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LVSZEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer’s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. The wartime writings of Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, Rachel Bespaloff, Hermann Broch, Max Horkheimer, Primo Levi, and others were attempts both to understand the collapse of European civilization and the Enlightenment through critiques of their foundational texts and to imagine the place of the Homeric epics in a new post-War humanism. The book thus also explores the reception of these writers, analyzing how Jewish child-survivors like Geoffrey Hartman and Hélène Cixous and writers of the post-Holocaust generation like Daniel Mendelsohn continued to read the epics as narratives of grief, trauma, and woundedness into the twenty-first century.