The Sense of Semblance: Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art, Henry W. Pickford (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013), xii + 280 pp., hardcover 45.00
I am trained as a historian and art historian rather than as a philosopher. Nevertheless, I found Henry Pickford's discussion of the dialectical tensions between the immorality of the Holocaust and the aesthetic need to depict it very compelling. It is also remarkably free of the disciplinary j...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 302-305 |
| Review of: | The sense of semblance (New York, NY : Fordham Univ. Press, 2013) (Deshmukh, Marion)
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| Summary: | I am trained as a historian and art historian rather than as a philosopher. Nevertheless, I found Henry Pickford's discussion of the dialectical tensions between the immorality of the Holocaust and the aesthetic need to depict it very compelling. It is also remarkably free of the disciplinary jargon that would have proved a barrier in elucidating this important topic for those outside the field of philosophy. The volume is truly interdisciplinary in that the author examines a wide range of artworks—memorials, a documentary film, poetry, and a graphic novel—linking them to both Continental and Anglophone philosophical traditions. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv037 |