When the Tiger leaps into the past: Holocaust, history, and messianic materialism in Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, and László nemes’ son of Saul

Angelaki 24 (5):44-60 (2019)
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This article examines Giorgio Agamben’s rejection of the religious term Holocaust as a name for the extermination of the Jewish people. Agamben rejects this term (and eventually prefers the...

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Homo sacer.Giorgio Agamben - 1998 - Problemi 1.
Melancholy and the Act.Slavoj Žižek - 2000 - Critical Inquiry 26 (4):657-681.
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