Week 1: Introductions
Essential Reading:
Landau, R. S. (1998) Studying the Holocaust, London: Routledge (Introduction)
You should also begin reading a selection of personal testimony and/or fiction in preparation for your first assignment.
Further Reading:
* Note:- Many of the books listed in the further reading list for Week 1 will be useful for general reading throughout the module.
Bauman, Z. (1989) Modernity and the Holocaust, Oxford: Polity Press
Bloxham, D & Kushner, T. (2005) The Holocaust Critical Historical Approaches, Manchester: Manchester University Press
Browning, C. (1992) The Path to Genocide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Browning, C. (2005) The Origins of the Final Solution, London: Arrow
Davies, I. (2000) Teaching the Holocaust, Educational Dimensions, Principles and Practice, London: Continuum
Deckert-Peaceman, H. (2003) Teaching the Holocaust in the USA: a German perspective, Intercultural Education, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2003
Finkelstein, N. (2003) The Holocaust Industry London: Verso
Fogelman, E. (1995) Conscience and Courage, London: Cassell
Goldhagen, D. (1997) Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, London: Abacus
Gur-Ze’ve, I. (1998) The Morality of Acknowledging/Not-Acknowledging the Other’s Holocaust/Genocide Journal of Moral Education, Vol. 27, No. 2 (June 1998) pp161-177
Hitler, A. and Bormann, M. (2000) Hitler’s Table Talk: His Private Conversations 1941 – 44, Weidenfeld and Nicholson: University Press
Landau, R. S. (1998) Studying the Holocaust, London: Routledge
Langer, L. (1995) Admitting the Holocaust, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Levi, N. and Rothberg, M. (2003) The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Mendelsohn, J. (1982) Legalizing the Holocaust, London: New York
Millen, R. and Bennett, T. (et al.) (Eds) (1996) New Perspectives on the Holocaust, New York: New York University Press
Morgan, M. (2001) Beyond Auschwitz, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Rosenbaum, A. (Ed) (2001) Is the Holocaust Unique?, Oxford: Westview
Roth, J. and Berenbaum, M. (1989) Holocaust, Religious and Philosophical Implications, St. Paul, MN: Paragon House
Santerini, M. (2003) Holocaust Educationin Italy, Intercultural Education, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2003
Shoemaker, R. (2003) Teaching the Holocaust in America’s Schools: some considerations for teachers, Intercultural Education, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2003
Short, G. (2003) Lessons of the Holocaust: a response to critics, Educational Review, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2003
Totten, S. (Ed) (2002) Remembering the Past, Education for the Present and the Future, Westport: Praeger
Week 2: Optional Visit to Holocaust Exhibition, Imperial War Museum: Details to follow (no Taught Session)
Week 3: Personal Testimony
Essential Reading (Note: these readings are relevant for weeks 2 and 3)
Agamben, G. (2005 ) Remnants of Auschwitz, New York: Zone (p15-39, 144-151 these will also be relevant to weeks 5, 6 and 7)
Bailey, P. (2005) in Levi, P. (2005) The Drowned and the Saved, London: Abacus (pix-xvii)
Langer, L. (1998) Preempting the Holocaust, New Haven and London: Yale University Press (p68-79, 189-193)
Further Reading
Amery, J. (1999) At the Mind’s limits, London: Granta
Bitton-Jackson, L. (2000) I Have Lived A Thousand Years, London: Pocket Books
Epstein, H. (1988) Children of the Holocaust, New York: Penguin
Hunt, I. (2005) On Hitler’s Mountain: My Nazi Childhood, London: Atlantic
Finkelstein, N. (2003) The Holocaust Industry London: Verso
Frank, A. (1997) The Diary of Anne Frank, London: Viking
Kessel, S. (2001) Hanged at Auschwitz, New York: Cooper Square
Langer, L. (1991) Holocaust Testimonies: the ruins of memory, London; New Haven: Yale University Press
Langer, L. (1998) Preempting the Holocaust, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
Levi, P. (2005) The Drowned and the Saved, London: Abacus
Levi, P. (2006) If this is a Man, London: Abacus
Levi, P. (1996) Survival in Auschwitz, New York: Touchstone
Lewis, H. (1992) A Time To Speak, New York: Carroll and Graf
Muller, F. (1979) Three Years in the Gas Chamber, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee
Spiegelman, A. (2003 ) Maus, London: Penguin
Wiesel, E. (1981) Night, London: Penguin (See also Night Trilogy)
* Note: there is a wide selection of Holocaust testimony in the library and I would encourage you to explore beyond the testimonies listed here.
Week 4: Holocaust Fiction
Essential Reading: (Note: these readings are relevant to weeks 3 and 4)
Horowitz, S. (1997) Voicing the Void, New York: State of New York University Press (p1-43)
Sicher, E. (2005) The Holocaust Novel London: Routledge (pix-xiii)
Vice, S. (2000) Holocaust fiction, New York: Routledge (p1-10)
Further reading:
Boyne, J. (2007) The boy in the stripped pyjamas London: Black Swan
Fensch, T. (1995) Oskar Schindler and his list: the man, the book, the film, the Holocaust and its survivors, Forest Dale, Vt.: Paul S. Eriksson
Finkelstein, N. (2003) The Holocaust Industry London: Verso
Geis, D. (2003) Considering Maus approaches to Art Spiegelman’s “Survivor’s Tale” of the Holocaust Alabama: University of Alabama Press
Horowitz, S. (1997) Voicing the Void, New York: State University of New York Press
Kineally, T. (1994) Schindler’s List, New York: Pocket Books
Levi, P. (2000) If not now, when?, London: Penguin
Loshitzky, Y. (1997) Spielberg’s Holocaust: critical perspectives on ‘Schindler’s list’, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Nolan, H. (2003) If I Should Die Before I Wake , Oxford: HardCourt
Schiff, H. (1995) Holocaust Poetry, London: Fount
Sicher, E. (2005) The Holocaust Novel, London: Routledge
Spiegelman, A. (2003 ) Maus, London: Penguin
Styron, W. (1979) Sophie’s Choice, New York: Random House
Vice, S. (2000) Holocaust fiction, New York: Routledge
Week 5: The Trials
Suggested Reading:
Arendt, H. (1994) Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report on the Banality of Evil, London: Penguin (this is not in the reading pack – there are copies in the library and it can be purchased at a reasonable price from Amazon if you’d like to pursue this line of research further).
Further Reading
Bloxham, D. (2001) Genocide on Trial, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Cooper, B. (Ed) (1999) War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg, New York: TV Books
Douglas, L. (2001) The Memory of Judgement, London: Yale University Press
Harrris, W. (1999) Tyranny on Trial, Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press
Pendas, D. (2005) The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-5, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Wittmann, R. (2005) Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial, London: Harvard University Press
Week 6: Lyotard – Silence and Justice
Essential Reading:
Lyotard, J-F. (1988) The Differend, Manchester: Manchester University Press (p3-31)
Further Reading:
Bennington, G. (1988) Lyotard – Writing the Event, Manchester: Manchester University Press
Cohen, J. (2003) Interrupting Auschwitz, London: Continuum
Crome, K. and Williams, J. (2006) The Lyotard Reader and Guide, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Dunn, A. (1993) A Tyranny of Justice: The Ethics of Lyotard’s Differend, boundary 2, Vol 20, No 1. (Spring, 1993), pp.192-220 (online at: http://links.jstor.org)
Lyotard, J-F. (1984) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Manchester: Manchester University Press
Lyotard, J-F. (1988) The Differend, Manchester: Manchester University Press
Lyotard, J-F (1992) The Postmodern Explained to Children, London: Turnaround
Lyotard, J-F. (1995) Heidegger and “the jews”, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press
Ronell, A. (2004) The Testamentary Whimper, The South Atlantic Quarterly 103.2/3 (2004) 489-499 (Online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/south_atlantic_quarterly/v103/103.2ronell.html)
Todd, S. (2007) Promoting a Just Education: Dilemmas of rights, freedom and justice, Education Philosophy and Theory, (Online at www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00310.x)
Williams, J. (1998) Lyotard – Toward a Postmodern Philosophy, Cambridge: Polity Press
Week 7: Agamben – The Dehumanisation of the Other
Essential Reading:
Agamben, G. (1998) Homo Sacer, California: Stanford University Press (p1-12, 126-135 and 136-143)
Homo Sacer can be found online at http://korotonomedya2.googlepages.com/GiorgioAgamben-HOMOSACERSovereignPow.pdf.
You will also find the readings from Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz from week 3 particularly relevant this week.
Further Reading:
Agamben, G. (1998) Homo Sacer, Stanford: Stanford University Press
Online at: http://korotonomedya2.googlepages.com/GiorgioAgamben-HOMOSACERSovereignPow.pdf
Agamben, G. (2000) Means without End: Notes on Politics, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press
Agamben, G. (2002) Remnants of Auschwitz, New York: Zone Books
Agamben, G. (2004) The Open: Man and Animal (crossing aesthetics), Stanford: Stanford University Press
Agamben, G (2007) Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience, London: Verso
Calarco, M and Decaroli, S. (Eds) (2007) On Agamben: Sovereignty and Life, Stanford: Stanford University Press
Chare, N. (2006) The Gap in Context – Giorgio Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz, Cultural Critique 64 – Fall 2006
Derrida, J. (2005) Rogues, California: Stanford University Press
Gur-Ze’ev, I. and Pappe, I. (2003) Beyond the Destruction of the Other’s Collective Memory, Theory, Culture and Society 2003 (SAGE, London, Thousand Oaks and New Dehli), Vol. 20 (1); 93-108
Norris, A. (2005) Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer, Durham: Duke University Press
Spinks, L. (2001) Thinking the post-human: literature, affect and the politics of style, Textual Practice, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2001
Week 8: Adorno – After Auschwitz?
Essential Reading:
Adorno, T. W. (2003) Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader, California: Stanford University Press (chapter 1)
Adorno, T. W. (1973) Negative Dialectics, London: Harper Row (Meditations on Metaphysics and p146-151, 189-192)
Further Reading:
Adorno, T. (1973) The Jargon of Authenticity, London: Routledge
Adorno, T. and Horkheimer, M. (1997) Dialectic of Enlightenment, London: Verso
Adorno, T. W. (1973) Negative Dialectics, London: Harper Row
Adorno, T. W. (2003) Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader, California: Stanford University Press
Cohen, J. (2003) Interrupting Auschwitz, London: Continuum
Jarvis, S. (2006) Adorno A Critical Introduction, London: Polity Press
Rose, G. (1978) The Melancholy Science, London: MacMillan
Week 9: Rose – The Fascism of Representation
Essential Reading:
Rose, G. (1995) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Chapter 2)
Further Reading:
Cohen, J. (2003) Interrupting Auschwitz, London: Continuum
Eaglestone, R. (2004) The Holocaust and the Postmodern, Oxford: Oxford University Press
LaCapra, D. (1994) Representing the Holocaust, Ithaca; London: Cornell
Rose, G. (1995) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Rose, G. (1997) Love’s Work, London: Vintage
Shanks, A. (2008) Against Innocence, London: SCM Press
Williams, R. (2000) Lost Icon’s London: Continuum
Week 10: Perpetrators, collaborators and victims
Suggested/further Reading:
Adorno, T. W. (2003) Can One Live After Auschwitz? California: Stanford University Press
Agamben, G. (1998) Homo Sacer, California: Stanford University Press
Agamben, G. (2005) State of Exception, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Amery, J. (1980) At the Mind’s Limits, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press
Bauer, Y. (2002) Rethinking the Holocaust, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
Browning, C. (1998) Ordinary Men, London: Penguin
Fackenheim, E. (1994) To Mend the World: Foundations of Post
Holocaust Jewish Thought, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Frankl, V. (2004) Man’s Search for Meaning, London: Ryder
Hoss, R. (1996) Death Dealer, New York: Da Capo Press
Liebschner, J. (2006) The Iron Crossroads, London: Athena Press
Patterson, D. (2008) Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust, Syracuse University Press
Rose, G. (1995) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Williams, R. (2000) Lost Icon’s London: Continuum
Week 11: Conclusions
Week 12: Individual essay tutorials