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The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide

The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide

Finkielkraut, Alain
Golsan, Richard J.
Kelly, Mary Byrd

Hardcover

Series: Texts and Contexts

PhilosophyHolocaust

ISBN10: 0803220006
ISBN13: 9780803220003
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Apr 1 1998
Pages: 149
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.84
Language: English
The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust--and on Holocaust denial--from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe.

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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