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    Traces of War

    Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing

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    Author(s)
    Davis, Colin
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    101372
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is pre-eminently the case in France, where the experience of defeat and occupation created the grounds for a deeply ambiguous mixture of resistance and collaboration, pride and humiliation, heroism and abjection, which writers and politicians have been trying to disentangle ever since. This book develops a theoretical approach which draws on trauma studies and hermeneutics; and it then focuses on some of the intellectuals who lived through the war and on how their experience and troubled memories of it continue to echo through their later writing, even and especially when it is not the explicit topic. This was an astonishing generation of writers who would go on to play a pivotal role on a global scale in post-war aesthetic and philosophical endeavours. The book proposes close readings of works by some of the most brilliant amongst them: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Charlotte Delbo, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, Louis Althusser, Jorge Semprun, Elie Wiesel, and Sarah Kofman.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30530
    Keywords
    Languages; Albert Camus; Auschwitz concentration camp; Emmanuel Levinas; Hermeneutics; Jean-Paul Sartre; Paul Ricœur; Psychoanalysis; Sigmund Freud; The Holocaust
    DOI
    10.2307/j.ctt1ps33bb
    ISBN
    9781786940421
    OCN
    1016925679
    Publisher
    Liverpool University Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/
    Publication date and place
    Liverpool, 2017-12-01
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 101372 - KU Select 2017: Front list Collection
    Series
    Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures,
    Classification
    Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Albert Camus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus; Auschwitz concentration camp - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp; Emmanuel Levinas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Levinas; Hermeneutics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics; Jean-Paul Sartre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre; Paul Ricœur - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ric%C5%93ur; Psychoanalysis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis; Sigmund Freud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud; The Holocaust - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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