Foundational pasts : the Holocaust as historical understanding

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Foundational pasts : the Holocaust as historical understanding

Alon Confino

Cambridge University Press, 2012

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-176) and index

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内容説明

Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain – the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the war – Confino's research goes in a new direction. He analyzes the culture and sensibilities that made it possible for the Nazis and other Germans to imagine the making of a world without Jews. Confino seeks these insights from the ways historians interpreted another short, violent and foundational event in modern European history – the French Revolution. The comparison of the ways we understand the Holocaust with scholars' interpretations of the French Revolution allows Confino to question some of the basic assumptions of present-day historians concerning historical narration, explanation and understanding.

目次

  • 1. Between the French Revolution and the Holocaust: events that represent an age
  • 2. A dominant interpretive framework
  • 3. Narrative form and historical sensation
  • 4. Beginnings and endings
  • 5. The totality and limits of historical context
  • 6. Contingency, the essence of history
  • 7. Ideology, race, and culture.

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