Beyond the Conceivable (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
286
Utgivningsdatum
2000-05-01
Förlag
University of California Press
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
234 x 160 x 28 mm
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640 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780520213456

Beyond the Conceivable

Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust

av Dan Diner
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2000-05-01
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The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One can no longer assume that actors as well as historians are operating in the same conceptual universe, sharing the same criteria of rational discourse. This is particularly true of victims and perpetrators, whose memories shape the distortions of historical narrative in ways often diametrically opposed. The essays are divided into three groups. The first group talks about anti-Semitism in the context of the 1930s and the ideologies that drove the Nazi regime. The second group concentrates on the almost unbelievably different perceptions of the 'Final Solution', with particularly illuminating discussions of the Judenrat, or Jewish council. The third group considers the Holocaust as the subject of narrative and historical memory. Diner focuses above all on perspectives: the very notions of rationality and irrationality are seen to be changeable, depending on who is applying them. And because neither rational nor irrational motives can be universally assigned to participants in the Holocaust, Diner proposes, from the perspective of the victims, the idea of the counter rational. His work is directed toward developing a theory of Holocaust historiography and offers, clearly and coherently, the highest level of reflection on these problems.
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"These essays demonstrate Diner's talents as an insightful and shrewd historian able to integrate intellectual history and international history."--"New Republic

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Dan Diner is Professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, and Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University.

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