Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti's and Franz Baermann Steiner's Responses to the Shoah

by Michael Mack

This essay is offered particularly as a contribution to the relationship between theological and literary writings on the Holocaust. Franz Baermann Steiner's (1909-1952) detailed sociological work - he taught at the Department of Social Anthropology at Oxford and developed a sociology of danger that strongly influenced Mary Douglas, T. W. Adorno, Iris Murdoch, H.G. Adler and Julia Kristeva - contrasts with Canetti's emphasis on shock. Canetti's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3484651342
• ISBN13: 9783484651340
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary