Homer, Humanism, Holocaust Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II
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 wri...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 Homer and the Jews on the Cusp of World War 2
- Chapter 2 Nihilism, Thoughtlessness, and the Bourgeois Odysseus: Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and the Failure of Enlightenment Humanism
- Chapter 3 Reflections on a Damaged Life: Hermann Broch’s Mythical Method and Rachel Bespaloff’s On the Iliad
- Chapter 4 Odysseus’ (Memory) Scar: Geoffrey Hartman’s Erich Auerbach’s Odysseus
- Chapter 5 Hélène Cixous’ and Daniel Mendelsohn’s Postmemory Scars: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century