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Homer, Humanism, Holocaust - Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Homer, Humanism, Holocaust - Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the
Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the
Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a
parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the
Nazi genocide of the Jews. The wartime writings of Theodore Adorno,
Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, Rachel Bespaloff, Hermann Broch, Max
Horkheimer, Primo Levi, and others were attempts both to understand
the collapse of European civilization and the Enlightenment through
critiques of their foundational texts and to imagine the place of
the Homeric epics in a new post-War humanism. The book thus also
explores the reception of these writers, analyzing how Jewish
child-survivors like Geoffrey Hartman and Helene Cixous and writers
of the post-Holocaust generation like Daniel Mendelsohn continued
to read the epics as narratives of grief, trauma, and woundedness
into the twenty-first century..
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