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Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti's and Franz Baermann Steiner's Responses to the Shoah: 34 Reprint 2011 Edition
Author(s): Mack (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2001
- Edition: Reprint 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 9783484651340
- ISBN-13: 3484651342
Book Description
Whereas many other post-Holocaust Jewish thinkers – including Derrida – have concentrated on a refusal of totality and celebration of ‘otherness’, the poet and intellectual Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-1952) combines this emphasis with an equal stress on the ‘need’ for certain collectively acknowledged limits. Next to the wider significance of this book for discussions of Holocaust studies in relation to current theoretical and social issues, it will also offer a new interpretation of Elias Canetti’s work. This is the first detailed examination of Steiner’s anthropology and philosophy and its relation to the work of his close intellectual friend Canetti.
