L'histoire déchirée
Auteur: Enzo Traverso
Nombre de pages: 239 pages
ISBN: 220405562X, 9782204055628
Edition: Cerf
Date de publication: Cerf
Description: Analyzes the works of writers and philosophers in whose writings the central theme is the destruction of the Jews during World War II. Deals also with the works of Max Weber, Franz Kafka, and Walter Benjamin, who were discussing a future catastrophe already before the Holocaust. Focuses on analysis of works by Hannah Arendt, Günther Anders, Theodor Adorno, Paul Celan, Jean Améry, and Primo Levi. Pp. 189-218, "La responsabilité des intellectuels", deals with Dwight MacDonald's article "The Responsibility of Peoples", published in 1945, and with Jean-Paul Sartre's "Réflexions sur la question juive" (1946).
