Author: Diner, Dan
Title: Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2000). orig.boards. 23x15cm, (2),286 pp, Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism. No. 20.. Minor rubbing. Side page-edge soiled. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Political Ideology and Historical Context; On the Brink of Dictatorship: Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Constitution; Knowledge of Expansion: On the Geopolitics of Karl Haushofer; Norms for Domination: Nazi Legal Concepts of World Order; The Catastrophe before the Catastrophe:1938 in Historical Context; Perceptions of the Holocaust; The Limits of Reason: Max Horkheimer on Anti-Semitism and Extermination; Beyond the Conceivable: The Judenrat as Borderline Experience; Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage; On Rationality and Rationalization: An Economistic Explanation of the Final Solution; Historical Experience and Cognition: Juxtaposing Perspectives on National Socialism; Holocaust Narratives; Varieties of Narration: The Holocaust in Historical Memory; Nazism and Stalinism: On Memory Arbitrariness, Labor, and Death; Cumulative Contingency: Historicizing Legitimacy in Israeli Discourse; On Guilt Discourse and Other Narrations: German Questions and Universal Answers.

Keywords: German Political History, Holocaust, Historiography, Nazi Germany, National Socialism, World War Two, Jewish Minority, Jews Jewry, Nazism