Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Future Of The Holocaust: Between History And Memory

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In The Future of the Holocaust, Berel Lang continues his inquiry into the causal mechanisms of decision-making and conduct in Nazi Germany and into responses to the genocide by individuals and nations--an inquiry that he began in Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide and pursued in Heidegger's Silence. Raising the question now of what the future of the Holocaust is, he addresses among other topics how history and memory together shape views of the Holocaust; how the concept of intention--which played a crucial part in the events of half a century ago--shapes history and memory themselves; and how future views of this genocide may alter those of today.In addition, Lang explores cultural representations of the Final Solution--from monuments to public school curricula--within the Jewish and German communities. He analyzes ethical issues concerning such concepts as intention, responsibility, forgiveness, and revenge, and puts forward a theory of the history of evil which provides a context for the Holocaust both historically and morally. Addressing the claims that the Nazi genocide was unique, Lang argues that the Holocaust is at once an actual series of events and a still future possibility. If the Holocaust occurred once, he argues, it can occur twice--and this view of the future remains an unavoidable premise for anyone now writing or thinking about that event in the past.

Language: English

Pages: 198

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Release: September 30, 1999

ISBN: 080148569X

ISBN 13: 9780801485695

The Future Of The Holocaust: Between History And Memory

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In The Future of the Holocaust, Berel Lang continues his inquiry into the causal mechanisms of decision-making and conduct in Nazi Germany and into responses to the genocide by individuals and nations--an inquiry that he began in Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide and pursued in Heidegger's Silence. Raising the question now of what the future of the Holocaust is, he addresses among other topics how history and memory together shape views of the Holocaust; how the concept of intention--which played a crucial part in the events of half a century ago--shapes history and memory themselves; and how future views of this genocide may alter those of today.In addition, Lang explores cultural representations of the Final Solution--from monuments to public school curricula--within the Jewish and German communities. He analyzes ethical issues concerning such concepts as intention, responsibility, forgiveness, and revenge, and puts forward a theory of the history of evil which provides a context for the Holocaust both historically and morally. Addressing the claims that the Nazi genocide was unique, Lang argues that the Holocaust is at once an actual series of events and a still future possibility. If the Holocaust occurred once, he argues, it can occur twice--and this view of the future remains an unavoidable premise for anyone now writing or thinking about that event in the past.

Language: English

Pages: 198

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Release: September 30, 1999

ISBN: 080148569X

ISBN 13: 9780801485695

More books from Berel Lang

Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Holocaust Reader P

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Writing and the Holocaust

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Concept of Style

3.6/5 ( ratings)

After Representation?: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture

2.2/5 ( ratings)

Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide

Heidegger's Silence

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Heideggerovo mlčení

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Journal of Philosophy: Volume LXXXII, Number 10, October 1985

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Race and Racism in Theory and Practice

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Giants of Philosophy: Plato

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Mind's Bodies: Thought in the ACT

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Philosophy and the Art of Writing

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Philosophical Witnessing (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Plato

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Writing and the Moral Self

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Berel Lang

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Writing and the Moral Self (Routledge Library Editions: Ethics)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?