Format:
1 online resource (158 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849640251
Series Statement:
IIRE (International Institute for Research and Education)
Content:
Enzo Traverso's Understanding the Nazi Genocide draws on the critical and heretical Marxism of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- IIRE Notebooks for Study and Research -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Auschwitz, Marx and the Twentieth Century -- Auschwitz and the Final Solution -- The Sociology of Auschwitz -- Auschwitz and Modernity -- Rereading Marx after Auschwitz -- 2. The Blindness of the Intellectuals: Historicising Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew -- 3. On the Edge of Understanding: From the Frankfurt School to Ernest Mandel -- The Frankfurt School -- Ernest Mandel -- 4. The Uniqueness of Auschwitz: Hypotheses, Problems and Wrong Turns in Historical Research -- The Uniqueness of Auschwitz: Definition and Comparisons -- Uniqueness of Memory and Uniqueness in History -- Auschwitz and the Uniqueness of the West -- The Uniqueness of Auschwitz and the Public Use of History -- 5. The Debt: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- Poland's Jews between Passivity and Resistance -- The Ghetto -- The Uprising -- A Revolt Left to its Fate -- The Proper use of Memory -- 6. The Shoah, Historians and the Public Use of History: On the Goldhagen Affair -- A Monocausal Explanation -- Minimising the Gas Chambers -- Goldhagen's German Triumph -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Auschwitz, Marx and the Twentieth Century -- 2. The Blindness of the Intellectuals -- 3. On the Edge of Understanding -- 4. The Uniqueness of Auschwitz -- 5. The Debt -- 6. The Shoah, Historians and the Public Use of History -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Action Française, 31 -- Adler, Victor, 21 -- Adorno, Theodor -- 7 -- 18 -- 19 -- 22 -- 41 -- 45-7 -- 49-50 -- 55 -- 61 -- 75 -- 118n11 -- 119n21 -- 126n5 -- Africa -- 74-5 -- 78 -- 125-6n5 -- Agudat Israel 84 -- Akiva 85 -- Algerian war -- 65 -- 101 -- Aly, Götz 92 -- Americas -- 52 -- 74 -- Amsterdam 87 -- Améry, Jean -- 9 -- 60 -- Anders, Günther -- 23 -- 45-6 -- 48 -- 50 -- 61 -- 66 -- 117n6 -- 119n21.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745313535
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780745313535
Language:
English
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