In this dissertation, I focus on literary representations of the partition of British India in 1947 during which approximately one million people were massacred, eight to ten million people were displaced, and women of minority communities were systematically raped, mutilated an…
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Chapter one addresses a primary source of Hitler's iconic image, Leni Riefenstahl, who established not only Hitler's cinematic image but also how he was visualized in the popular imagination. I place The Blue Light (1932), the film that inspired Hitler's admiration, in dialogue …
This dissertation studies aesthetic, political and ethical dimensions of the representation of Holocaust perpetrators in Hebrew and Israeli fiction published since the mid-1940s. Drawing on recent scholarship by Holocaust historians, such as Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldh…
This work elucidates elements of Leibniz's theodicy which are non-teleological. Rather than ignoring the personal dimensions of suffering, as some have charged, Leibniz actually recognizes the threat that the problem of innocent suffering presents for a perfectly good God. His t…
This dissertation explores the intellectual problem of evil by asking several questions. (1) How does one define the word "evil?" (2) How does evil arise? (3) How might one find a sense of meaning and hope in the face of one's experience of evil? (4) How can one reconcile one's …
This is a study of paranoia, not as a psychological malady, but as a way of seeing, or worldview. The author begins by distinguishing the paranoid vision from paranoia in the clinical sense, and from what the historian Richard Hofstadter called "the paranoid style." He then argu…