TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Modernity and the Holocaust, or, Listening to Eurydice
JO  - Theory, culture and society
A1  - Hell, Julia
SP  - 125
EP  - 154
VL  - 27
IS  - 6
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0263-2764
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276410382026
ID  - ref1
ER  -