After the Holocaust: The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction
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After the Holocaust: The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction
Book Details
- Author
- C. Fred Alford
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Holocaust
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780521766326
- ISBN-10
- 052176632X
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ISBN: 052176632X
Author: Alford, C. Fred
Condition: New
The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. Moving from the Book of Job, an account of meaningful suffering in a God-drenched world, to the work of Primo Levi, who attempted to find meaning in the Holocaust through absolute clarity of insight, he concludes that neither strategy works well in todays world. More effective are the day-to-day coping practices of some survivors. Drawing on testimonies of survivors from the Fortunoff Video Archives, Alford also applies the work of Julia Kristeva and the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicot to his examination of a topic that has been and continues to be central to human experience.
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After the Holocaust: The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction
