POSTMODERNISM AND THE HOLOCAUST

Value Inquiry Book Series

Volumn 72, Issue , 1998, Pages 1-21

  Milchman, Alan ^a   Rosenberg, Alan ^a  

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20. Ibid., p. 73.
21. See Jeffrey Mehlman, "Blanchot at Combat: Of Literature and Terror," in Mehlman. Legacies ofAnti-Semitism in France (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), and Steven Ungar, Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France since 1930 (Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).
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23. Ibid., pp. 16-18.
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26. Ibid., p. 131.
27. Ibid.
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30. Hirsch, The Deconstruction ofLiterature, p. 122.
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33. Ibid., pp. 153-154.
34. Nancy, "Our History," p. 107.
35. Ibid., p. 110.
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49. Ibid.
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53. Ibid., p. 89.
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57. Lang, Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide, p. 156.
58. Ibid.
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