The future of a negation

reflections on the question of genocide

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The future of a negation

reflections on the question of genocide

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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English
Pages
146

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The future of a negation: reflections on the question of genocide
1998, University of Nebraska Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-142) and index.

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Lincoln
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Texts and contexts

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
179.7
Library of Congress
D804.355 .F5613 1998, D804.355.F5613 1998, D804.355 .F5613 1998eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxx, 146 p. ;
Number of pages
146

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL683542M
Internet Archive
futureofnegation0000fink
ISBN 10
0803220006
LCCN
97030297
OCLC/WorldCat
47008672, 37606152
Library Thing
5491435
Goodreads
321027

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