Theodor Pelekanidis

How to Write About the Holocaust (eBook, ePUB)

The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How to write about the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical framework that has developed in historiography in the last half a century with the demands of Holocaust representation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000584981
• Artikelnr.: 63576287

Autorenporträt

Theodor Pelekanidis is a post-doc researcher at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. His research interests include theory and philosophy of history, history of ideas and historiography of the Holocaust. His latest publication in Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History is titled "Manifesting Practical Pasts: Legacies of a Declining Postmodernism".

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: The Rise and Fall of Postmodernism in Historiography
1. Hayden White and theory of history 2. The Legacy of Metahistory:
Epistemological radicalism and political anxieties for the future of
historiography 3. Postmodernism and Afterward: Theory and Politics Part 2:
Postmodernism in Praxis: Just another Holocaust History? 4. Hayden White
and the Holocaust as a modernist event 5. The uniqueness-comparability
argument: a postmodern approach 6. Beyond Historiography: the 21st century
historical novel 7. Conclusion