@article{ref1,
title="Modernity and the Holocaust, or, Listening to Eurydice",
journal="Theory, culture and society",
year="2010",
author="Hell, Julia",
volume="27",
number="6",
pages="125-154",
abstract="In this article, I offer a literary-critical reading of Modernity and the Holocaust, arguing that Bauman’s non-Hobbesian ethics is linked to a form of Orphic authorship. I contextualize this reading with a study of three literary authors: W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss and Janina Bauman, and their respective versions of this post-Holocaust authorship. At stake is the drama of the forbidden gaze, the moment when Orpheus turns to look at Eurydice, killing her a second time. Using Levinas’ ethics and his scenario of recognition, Bauman re-writes this fateful gaze as a loving gaze, implicitly proposing a counter-model to the Schmittian gaze — always ready to recognize the enemy, always ready to kill.<p />",
language="",
issn="0263-2764",
doi="10.1177/0263276410382026",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276410382026"
}