If Auschwitz is Nothing

Against Denialism

Donatella Di Cesare (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2023
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-5570-3 (ISBN)

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Ever since the end of World War II, when the sheer enormity of the Nazi crime against the Jews became apparent, there have been repeated attempts to deny that the Holocaust really happened. The existence of gas chambers was questioned and the testimony of survivors was thrown into doubt; the more witnesses spoke out, the more they were intimidated and attacked by a denialism that sought to present itself as a search for historical truth.

The accusation of trickery and deception – so central to the centuries-old anti-Jewish hatred – continues to thrive in the present. Today, denialism takes a new and more insidious form: Jews are accused of exploiting the ‘cult of the Holocaust’ to justify the state of Israel and to take the reins of political power. Holocaust denial has merged with conspiracy theories, alleging the existence of a Jewish-controlled New World Order. Concisely and authoritatively, acclaimed philosopher Donatella Di Cesare reconstructs the evolution of denialism and sheds new light on one of the most troubling phenomena of our time.

Donatella Di Cesare is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome.

Preface

The New Denialism

If Auschwitz Is Nothing

1.   Annihilation and Denialism

2.   The Desecrators of Ashes

3.   In Hitler’s Shadow

4.   “Night and Fog”. Erasure in Language

5.   In the Shallows of Denial

6.   A Matter of Opinion?

7.   Technical Expertise and Gas. On the Idolatry of the Real

8.   The Face of the Asphyxiated. On the “Sonderkommando”

9.   Even the Dead Will not be Safe"". Memory and Remembrance

10. The Future of a Negation

11. The Singularity of the Extermination

12. Saying Auschwitz

Antisemitism in the Twenty-First Century

Bibliography

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	10.03.2023
Übersetzer	David Broder
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 218 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-5095-5570-6 / 1509555706
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-5570-3 / 9781509555703
Zustand	Neuware