Kristina Busse

After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust

Selected Bibliography

History and Historiography
  • Anderson, Perry. “On Emplotment: Two Kinds of Ruin.” Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution.” Ed. Saul Friedländer. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. 54-65.
  • Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1989.
  • Bernauer, James W. “Beyond Life and Death: On Foucault’s Post-Auschwitz Ethic.” Michel Foucault, Philosopher. Ed. Armstrong, Timothy J. New York : Routledge, 1992.
  • Biagioli, Mario. “Science, Modernity, and the Final Solution.” Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution.” Ed. Saul Friedlander. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992. 185-205.
  • Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York : Harper Collins, 1992.
  • Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews.Bantam, 1986.
  • Funkenstein, Amos. “History, Counterhistory, and Narrative.” Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution.” Ed. Saul Friedländer. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. 66-81.
  • Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust . New York : Knopf, 1996.
  • Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews . Rev. and definitive Ed. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985.
  • Hartman, Geoffrey.Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1986.
  • Jay, Martin.“Of Plots, Witnesses, and Judgment.” Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution.” Ed. Saul Friedländer. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. 97-107.
  • Michael, Marrus. The Holocaust in History. Penguin, 1989.
  • Novick, Peter. The Holocaust in American Life. Boston: Houghton, 1999.
  • Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killings and the Psychology of Genocide. New York: Basic, 1986.
  • “Special Issue on the Historikerstreit.” New German Critique 44 (Spring/Summer 1988).
  • White, Hayden. “Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth.” Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution.” Ed. Saul Friedländer. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. 37-53.
Frankfurt School and Continental Responses
  • Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. 1951. Harvest Books, 1973.
  • Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory.1970. London: Routledge, 1984.
  • Adorno, Theodor W. Negative Dialectics . 1966. Trans. E. B. Ashton. New York : Continuum, 1973.
  • Buck-Morss, Susan. The Origin of the Negative Dialectics. Free Press, 1977.
  • Dews, Peter. Introduction. Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas. Rev. ed. Jürgen Habermas and Peter Dews. New York: Verso, 1992.1-34.
  • Foucault, Michel. “What is Enlightenment?” The Foucault Reader. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York : Pantheon, 1984. 32-50.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. “Modernity versus Postmodernity,” New German Critique 22 (Winter 1981): 1-12. Rpt. “Modernity—An Incomplete Project” in Hal Foster, The Anti-Aesthetic. 3-15.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. 1985. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.
  • Habermas, Jürgen.“A Kind of Settling Damages.” The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians’ Debate . Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.207-48.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. “Taking Aim at the Heart of the Present.” The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians’ Debate. Ed. and trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
  • Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. “So . . . What Is Enlightenment?” Critical Inquiry 20.3 (Spring 1994): 524-56.
  • Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment. 1944. New York : Continuum, 1993.
  • Jameson, Frederic. Late Marxism: Adorno, or, the Persistence of the Dialectic London: Verso, 1990.
  • Jay, Martin. The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950. Berkeley: U of California P, 1973.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition. 1979. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1984.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. The Differend. 1983. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1988.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. Heidegger and "the Jews." 1988. Trans. Andreas Michel and Mark S. Roberts. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Explained. 1988. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993.
  • Nägele, Rainer. “The Scene of the Other: Theodor W. Adorno’s Negative Dialectic in the Context of Poststructuralism,” boundary 211:1-2 (Fall, Winter 1982-3): 59-79.
  • Norris Christopher. “‘What is Enlightenment?’: Kant according to Foucault.” The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. Ed. Gary Gutting. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
  • Nuyen, A. T. “Adorno and the French Post-Structuralists on the Other of Reason.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 4.4 (1990): 310-22.
  • Rothberg, Michael. “After Adorno: Culture in the Wake of Catastrophe.” New German Critique 72 (Fall 1997): 45-81.
  • Rorty, Richard. “Habermas and Lyotard on Postmodernity.” Zeitgeist in Babel. Ed. Ingeborg Hoesterey.Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.84-97.
  • Rose, Gillian. The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno. London: MacMillan, 1978.
  • Steuerman, Emilia. “Habermas vs. Lyotard: Modernity vs. Postmodernity?” Judging Lyotard. Ed. Andrew Benjamin. London: Routledge, 1992. 99-118.
Heidegger Affair
  • Davidson, Arnold, ed. “Symposium on Heidegger and Nazism.” Critical Inquiry 15 (Winter 1989): 407-488.
  • Derrida, Jacques. “Geschlecht 2: Heidegger's Hand.” Deconstruction and Philosophy. Ed. John Sallis. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1987.
  • Derrida, Jacques. “Heidegger, l'enfer des philosophes.” Entretien avec Didier Eribon. Nouvel Observateur 1200, 6-12 Nov. 1987: 170-174.
  • Derrida, Jacques. Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question . Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1989.
  • Farias, Victor. Heidegger and Nazism. 1987. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
  • Lang, Berel. Heidegger's Silence. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
  • Milchman, Alan and Alan Rosenberg. eds. Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press International, 1996.
  • Milchman, Alan and Alan Rosenberg. “Michel Foucault, Auschwitz and Modernity.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 22 (1996): 101-13.
  • Ott, Hugo. Martin Heidegger: A Political Life. 1988.New York: Basic Books, 1993.
  • Wolin, Richard, ed. The Heidegger Controversy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
  • Wood, D. Ed. Of Derrida, Heidegger, and Spirit. Evanston, Northwestern Univ. Press, 1993.
Trauma and Testimony
  • Agamben, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. New York: Zone Books, 1999.
  • Améry, Jean. At the Mind’s Limit: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities. 1970. Trans. Sidney Rosenfeld and Stella P. Rosenfeld.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
  • Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
  • Caruth, Cathy. ed. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
  • Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps .Oxford: Oxford UP, 1976.
  • Felman, Shoshana and Dori Laub. Testimony: The Crisis of Witnessing in Literature, Psycho­analysis, and History. New York: Routledge, 1992.
  • Frankl, Viktor. Man’s Search For Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.
  • Lanzmann, Claude. “The Obscenity of Understanding: An Evening With Claude Lanzmann.” Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Ed. Cathy Caruth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995. 200-220.
  • Hartman, Geoffrey. ed. Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
  • Kofman, Sarah. Smothered Words. Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1998
  • Kren and Rappaport, Holocaust and the Crisis in Human Behavior. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1980.
  • LaCapra, Dominick. Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1994.
  • LaCapra, Dominick. History and Memory after Auschwitz. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1998.
  • Lang, Berel. Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990.
  • Langer, Lawrence. Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1982.
  • Langer, Lawrence. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1991.
  • Langer, Lawrence. Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
  • Langer, Lawrence. Preempting the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1998.
  • Milgram, J. Stanley. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. New York: Harper&Row, 1974.
  • Tal, Kali. Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996
  • Todorov, Tzvetan. Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camp. New York: Metropolitan, 1996.
Narratives of the Holocaust and Their Ethical Implications
  • Eisenstein, Paul . Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003.
  • Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven. By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980.
  • Friedländer, Saul. Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
  • Friedländer, Saul. ed. Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution.” Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992.
  • Hirsch, David H. The Destruction of Literature: Criticism After Auschwitz. Hanover: Brown UP, 1991.
  • Horowitz, Sara. Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.
  • Hartman, Geoffrey. The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1996.
  • Lang, Berel. ed. Writing and the Holocaust. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988.
  • Langer, Lawrence. The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1975.
  • Rosenfeld, Alvin. A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature .Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1980.
  • Rothberg, Michael. Traumatic Realism.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
  • Steiner, George. Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman. New York: Atheneum, 1967.
  • Steiner, George. “The Long Life of Metaphor: An Approach to the ‘Shoah.’” Writing and the Holocaust. Ed. Berel Lang. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988. 154-171.
  • Ozick, Cynthia. “The Rights of Fiction and the Rights of Imagination.” Commentary 107.3 (March 99): 22-27.
  • Young, James E. Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
  • Wiesel, Elie. “The Holocaust as Literary Inspiration.” Dimensions of the Holocaust. Evanston: Northwestern Univ., Press 1977.5-19.
Fictions of the Holocaust
  • Begley, Louis. Wartime Lies .New York: Knopf, 1991.
  • Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. 1959.New York: Viking, 1967.
  • Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995.
  • Fink, Ida. A Scrap of Time: Stories. 1983. Trans. Madeline Levine and Francine Prose. Evanston: Northwestern Illinois Press, 1995.39-47.
  • Grossman, David. See Under: Love.Picador, 2002.
  • Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List.New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.
  • Klüger, Ruth. Weiter Leben: Eine Jugend. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1994.
  • Kuznetsov, Anatoli. Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel. Trans. David Floyd. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970.
  • Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. New York: Summit, 1988.
  • Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity. 1958.New York: Collier, 1961.
  • Mächler, Stefan. The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth. New York: Schocken, 2001.
  • Nomberg-Przuytyk, Sara. Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land. University of North Carolina Press,1985.
  • Ozick, Cynthia. The Shawl. New York: Knopf, 1989.
  • Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader .1995. Trans. Carol Brown Janeway. New York: Pantheon, 1997.
  • Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
  • Spiegelman, Art. Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991.
  • Thomas, D. M. The White Hotel. New York: Penguin, 1981.
  • Wiesel, Elie. The Night Trilogy. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985.
  • Wilkomirski, Binjamin. Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood. New York: Schocken, 1996. Rpt. in Stefan Mächler. The Wilkomirski Affair. 375-496.
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