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Journal Article
Fiction, Death and Testimony: Toward a Politics of the Limits of Thought1
2003
Overview
(84) Concentration camps, crematoria, the technical sophistication in the organization of the Holocaust, all forced a generation to think its own conditions of possibility, which involved generating thought around this unspeakable factum of death which took place in the world at the same time that it subtracted itself from that world. Whereas for Freud, the rupture between fiction and death made life once again \"interesting,\" giving it \"once more [. . .] its full significance,\" Agamben identifies Auschwitz as the place where a new administration of that difference between life and death makes its appearance: \"an unprecedented absolutization of the biopower to make live intersects with an equally absolute generalization of the sovereign power to make die, such that biopolitics coincides immediately with thanatopolitics\" (83).
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Wayne State University Press
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