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L Interminable Ecriture de L Extermination

L Interminable Ecriture de L Extermination

Finkielkraut, Alain

Paperback

Series: Essais - Documents

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 223406144X
ISBN13: 9782234061446
Publisher: Stock
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

Rights sold to the English World (Seagull Books)

Under option in: Argentina, Brazil, Catalonia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain

A civilization that forgets its past is condemned to relive it. It is with this maxim - pronounced by the American philosopher George Santayana in the early Twentieth Century - firmly in mind that our civilization has instituted and institutionalized the memory of how the Jews of Europe were exterminated. But now an unexpected problem has emerged for this civilization: not that the crime has been forgotten, but everything else has. Hitler pervades the topic and no one else, or almost no one, stays on in the popular imagination.
The supreme wrongdoer is in the process of claiming the throne of memory for himself alone.
In this society where constant accusations and insistent expiation take turns in tackling history's darkest hours, I sometimes find myself dreaming of memories with no banner to wave, a modest, discreet, silent, pedestrian memory or one that makes no more noise than
turning the pages in the personal colloquium of reading.

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