Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845453026 ISBN 13 : 9781845453022

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2006

Synopsis

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi's reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain--lest resolution deceive us--will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jonathan Petropoulos is the John V. Croul Professor of European History and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College.

John Roth is that Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, at Claremont McKenna College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845453026
• ISBN 13: 9781845453022
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 440
• Éditeur: Petropoulos Jonathan, Roth John
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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