The Past’s Past
Thomas Laqueur, 19 September 1996
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
by Jay Winter.
Cambridge, 310 pp., £12.95, September 1996,0 521 49682 9 Show More
by Jay Winter.
Cambridge, 310 pp., £12.95, September 1996,
“... of 1939-45 shattered that possibility. His version of this view is offered in the language of Julia Kristeva, but it falls squarely in a broad tradition which regards the Holocaust as a, or rather as the, fundamental rupture in history, a chasm which exposes as never before the absolute limits of language, art and epistemology. Adorno famously ... ”