David Patterson is Hillel A. Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His many books include Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins.

"This book commands respect, both for the author's immense and intimate knowledge of what has become a vast body of work and for his unconditional commitment to the subject. I am in awe of what I have just read." — Dorota Glowacka, coeditor of Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries

• List of PhotographsAcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I. Reflections on Holocaust Representation and the Nonrepresentable: Theoretical Considerations By Way of a Prologue Naming It Naming Auschwitz Post-Auschwitz Implications for an Understanding of Language The Nonrepresentable and the Murder of the Mother The Silent Scream The Nonrepresentable Site of Silence Naming the Name, the Nameless, and the Assault on the Name The Nonrepresentable Assault on the Nonrepresentable Good The Assault on Time, the Death of Death, and Holocaust Representation A Memory and a NamePart II. The Literary Transcendence of Holocaust Representation: Speaking the Ineffable Opening Thoughts: Epiphany and the Ultimate A Word about Method: Substitution and the Transcendent The Extermination of the Eternal The Annihilation of the Father The Obliteration of the Mother The Collapse of Human Relation The Disintegration of Knowledge The Devastation of the Word The Demolition of Meaning The Desolation of the Soul The Death of Death The Eradication of the ChildPart III. The Photographic Transcendence of Holocaust Representation: Revealing the Invisible The Legacy of Lot’s Wife Footprints The Glory under Assault The Mothers of Israel The Child The Face The Edge of the Anti-World The Grave without a Cemetery The Muselmann Selection: No Judge and No Judgment A View from the Gas Chambers NotesBibliographyIndex

David Patterson is Hillel A. Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His many books include Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins.

"This book commands respect, both for the author's immense and intimate knowledge of what has become a vast body of work and for his unconditional commitment to the subject. I am in awe of what I have just read." — Dorota Glowacka, coeditor of Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries

• List of PhotographsAcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I. Reflections on Holocaust Representation and the Nonrepresentable: Theoretical Considerations By Way of a Prologue Naming It Naming Auschwitz Post-Auschwitz Implications for an Understanding of Language The Nonrepresentable and the Murder of the Mother The Silent Scream The Nonrepresentable Site of Silence Naming the Name, the Nameless, and the Assault on the Name The Nonrepresentable Assault on the Nonrepresentable Good The Assault on Time, the Death of Death, and Holocaust Representation A Memory and a NamePart II. The Literary Transcendence of Holocaust Representation: Speaking the Ineffable Opening Thoughts: Epiphany and the Ultimate A Word about Method: Substitution and the Transcendent The Extermination of the Eternal The Annihilation of the Father The Obliteration of the Mother The Collapse of Human Relation The Disintegration of Knowledge The Devastation of the Word The Demolition of Meaning The Desolation of the Soul The Death of Death The Eradication of the ChildPart III. The Photographic Transcendence of Holocaust Representation: Revealing the Invisible The Legacy of Lot’s Wife Footprints The Glory under Assault The Mothers of Israel The Child The Face The Edge of the Anti-World The Grave without a Cemetery The Muselmann Selection: No Judge and No Judgment A View from the Gas Chambers NotesBibliographyIndex