The future of a negation
reflections on the question of genocide
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Author
Publication
1998 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska
Language
English
Word Count
36,500 words, Guess
Page Count
146 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL683542M
- ISBN-100803220006
- OCLC Control Number47008672
- OCLC Control Number37606152
- OCLC Control Numberfutureofnegation0000fink
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number97030297
- LibraryThing5491435
- Goodreads321027
Classifications
- DDC179.7
- LCCD804.355 .F5613 1998
Description
The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. Finkielkraut's central topic is the impulse toward "negation" of the Nazi horrors: the arguments made by many people, of varying political orientations, that "the gas chambers are a hoax or, in any case, an unverifiable rumor." In addition, Finkielkraut looks at other instances of twentieth-century mass murder and at arguments made by contemporary politicians and intellectuals that similarly deny the full extent of these other atrocities. An original, fearless book, The Future of a Negation is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.
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