{"product_id":"holocaust-and-hope-literature-testimony-media-paperback-1","title":"Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Hartman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKevis Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBrian McGrath\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this beautifully composed volume Geoffrey Hartman explores the important place of 'literary knowledge' in the aftermath of the Holocaust, insisting on the non-redemptive hope borne by an imaginative language that watches over 'absent meaning.' Framed by an excellent introduction and punctuated by an illuminating interview, Hartman's irreplaceable voice, returning posthumously to us at our own moment of political and ethical crisis, calls upon us to refuse the emptying out of language and thought typical of totalitarian movements and to find the future-oriented words that, like stars, can still have 'an independent existence, that hang glittering in the firmament of discourse.'\"--\u003cb\u003eCathy Caruth\u003c\/b\u003e, Cornell University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHolocaust and Hope\u003c\/i\u003e shows one of our preeminent critics grappling with a subject to which he had returned for decades: literary, cultural, political, and historiographical implications of the Holocaust and its aftermath in Europe and America. In his last planned book, Geoffrey Hartman confronts contradictions that pose a challenge for our present and future. The passing of Holocaust survivors and their immediate families makes continued acts of witnessing more necessary even as distance in time makes the identities and acts of future witnessing more complicated. In addition, the particular kinds of amplification that we may be accustomed to or expect from our contemporary media environment can call forth not an intensity of response but rather an inertia, an \"unreality effect,\" that can come unexpectedly from the heightening of the real, or the hyperreality of too much, too fast, too strong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHolocaust and Hope\u003c\/i\u003e takes seriously the difference between our coming after Auschwitz and our being past it. With characteristic intensity and humanity, Hartman's essays explore the full complexity of how to transmit knowledge of the Holocaust to the future in ways that avoid simplification, the illusion of synthesis, or the aspiration to final closure, on the one hand, or compulsive repetition on the other. A significant part of the answer, for Hartman, requires special attention to the role of literary and audiovisual forms in promoting an active witnessing to extreme suffering that is relevant both for our time and the encroaching future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Hartman\u003c\/b\u003e was Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale and Project Director of its Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Hartman (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Hartman \u003c\/b\u003ewas Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University and Project Director of its Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Third Pillar: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEssays in Judaic Studies \u003c\/i\u003e(2011), \u003ci\u003eA Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChild of Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Geoffrey Hartman Reader \u003c\/i\u003e(2004, winner, Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism), \u003ci\u003eScars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eThe Fateful Question of Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(1997), \u003ci\u003eThe Longest Shadow: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn the Aftermath of the Holocaust \u003c\/i\u003e(1996), \u003ci\u003eThe Unremarkable Wordsworth \u003c\/i\u003e(1987), \u003ci\u003eCriticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today \u003c\/i\u003e(1980, 2nd ed., 2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Fate of Reading and Other Essays \u003c\/i\u003e(1975), \u003ci\u003eBeyond Formalism: Literary Essays, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e1958-1970 \u003c\/i\u003e(1970), and \u003ci\u003eWordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 \u003c\/i\u003e(1964, winner, Christian Gauss Award). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevis Goodman (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eKevis Goodman \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor and John F. Hotchkis Chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePathologies of Motion: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHistorical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics \u003c\/i\u003e(2023) and \u003ci\u003eGeorgic Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History \u003c\/i\u003e(2004). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian McGrath (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBrian McGrath \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLook Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms \u003c\/i\u003e(2022) and \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy \u003c\/i\u003e(2013). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53043091964211,"sku":"9781531512217","price":61.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/5GGdouCkMn9781531512217_d742b728-e57a-431a-b0d5-9792206ff781.webp?v=1770840543","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/holocaust-and-hope-literature-testimony-media-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}