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Title

The future of a negation : reflections on the question of genocide / Alain Finkielkraut ; translated by Mary Byrd Kelly ; with an introduction by Richard J. Golsan.

Author

Finkielkraut, Alain.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xxxiv, 146 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• 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.

Series Statement

Texts and contexts

Uniform Title

• Avenir d'une négation. English
• Texts and contexts.

Alternative Title

Avenir d'une négation.

Subject

• Holocaust denial
• Socialism and antisemitism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-142) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Richard J. Golsan -- Prologue: Facts Are Not Stubborn -- 1. The Worker, Martyr, and Savior -- 2. War Logic and Langue de bois -- 3. The Disillusioned Generation: A Portrait of the Duped as Non-believers -- 4. In Search of the True Victims, or the Disgrace of the Damned -- Epilogue: Prejudice and Paradox.

ISBN

0803220006 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

97030297

OCLC

ocm37606152

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries