Understanding the Nazi genocide : Marxism after Auschwitz / Enzo Traverso ; translated by Peter Drucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Traverso, Enzo, author.

Contributor:

International Institute for Research and Education.

Drucker, Péter, translator.

Series:

IIRE (International Institute for Research and Education)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genocide.

Communism and Judaism.

Physical Description:

viii, 152 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Enzo Traverso's Understanding the Nazi Genocide draws on the critical and heretical Marxism of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

IIRE Notebooks for Study and Research

Foreword

Introduction

1. Auschwitz, Marx and the Twentieth Century

Auschwitz and the Final Solution

The Sociology of Auschwitz

Auschwitz and Modernity

Rereading Marx after Auschwitz

2. The Blindness of the Intellectuals: Historicising Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew

3. On the Edge of Understanding: From the Frankfurt School to Ernest Mandel

The Frankfurt School

Ernest Mandel

4. The Uniqueness of Auschwitz: Hypotheses, Problems and Wrong Turns in Historical Research

The Uniqueness of Auschwitz: Definition and Comparisons

Uniqueness of Memory and Uniqueness in History

Auschwitz and the Uniqueness of the West

The Uniqueness of Auschwitz and the Public Use of History

5. The Debt: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Poland's Jews between Passivity and Resistance

The Ghetto

The Uprising

A Revolt Left to its Fate

The Proper use of Memory

6. The Shoah, Historians and the Public Use of History: On the Goldhagen Affair

A Monocausal Explanation

Minimising the Gas Chambers

Goldhagen's German Triumph

Conclusion

Notes

2. The Blindness of the Intellectuals

3. On the Edge of Understanding

4. The Uniqueness of Auschwitz

5. The Debt

6. The Shoah, Historians and the Public Use of History

Bibliography

Index

Action Française, 31

Adler, Victor, 21

Adorno, Theodor

7

18

19

22

41

45-7

49-50

55

61

75

118n11

119n21

126n5

Africa

74-5

78

125-6n5

Agudat Israel 84

Akiva 85

Algerian war

65

101

Aly, Götz 92

Americas

52

74

Amsterdam 87

Améry, Jean

9

60

Anders, Günther

23

45-6

48

50

66

117n6

119n21.

Anielewicz, Mordekhai 85-6

Antelme, Robert 28

Anti-Semitism

2-4

10-3

17

26-40

49

57

87

92-5

97

99-101

103-4

113n13

116n35

124n60

135n23

Antwerp 50

Arendt, Hannah

8

32-4

37

39

67

98

115n24

120n34

131n6

Argentina 73

Armenia

3

76

100

Aron, Raymond

33

114n20

Asia 75

Auschwitz [camp]

2

7-9

14-7

28

29

59

68-70

72

127n14

Austria

10

99

105

Baikal, Lake 69

Baltic States 12

Barrès, Maurice

31

Barth, Karl

93

133n7

Bataille, Georges

4

Bauman, Zygmunt

16

92

Bavaria 94

Bebel, August 21

Belgium

88

Belzec

68

Benda, Julien 35

Benjamin, Walter

20

44-7

79

107

Bensaïd, Daniel 106

Bergen-Belsen 68

Bergson, Henri

35

36

Berlin

81

102

Berlinski, Herz 85

Bernstein, Richard 115n24

Birkenau

14

70

Bismarck, Otto von

56

Blacks

53

73

Blanqui, Auguste

Bloch, Ernst

46

106

118n17

Bohemia 99

Bolshevism

13

21

30

76-7

Bonn 102

Bordiga, Antonio 124n60

Borowski, Tadeusz 9

Bosnia 74

Bouretz, Pierre

104

134n16

Braudel, Fernand 69

Brazil 73

Britain

1

25

Browning, Christopher

95-6

Brussels 51

Brzezinski, Zbigniew 3

Buber, Martin

34

38

Buchenwald

Bukharin, Nikolai 21

Bullock, Alan 128n19

Buna-Monowitz

Bund [General Jewish Workers Union]

43

83

85-6

Burke, Edmund

Cambodia

Central America 53.

Central Europe

12

44

Chaumont, Jean-Michel 66-7

Cheka 77

Chelmno

Chicago 102

China 75

Christian Socialism 10

Christianity

40

Clausewitz, Karl von 63-4

Claussen, Detlev 3

Cohen, Hermann

Cologne 93

Combe, Sonia 69

Communist parties

see also Bolshevism

80

85

95

Congo 125n5

Conquest, Robert 127n14

Conrad, Joseph 125n5

Corfu

Crimean War 51

Croce, Benedetto 20

Cuba

108

Cukiermann, Itsak 85

Czerniakow, Adam

82

84

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand 31

Dachau

Dahmer, Helmut 103

Darmesteter, James 34

Darquier de Pellepoix 31

Daudet, Léon 30

De Felice, Renzo 77

De Lapouge, Vacher 32

De Maistre, Joseph

Delbo, Charlotte 9

Deutscher, Isaac 62

Diner, Dan 123n59

Disabilities, people with

Dower, John 100

Dreyfus, Alfred

Drieu la Rochelle, Pierre

Drumont, Edouard 36-38

Durkheim, Emile

East Timor 75

Eastern Europe

11

125n5

Edelman, Marek

Eichmann, Adolf 16

Einsatzgruppen ['mobile killing units']

Einstein, Albert 36

Elias, Norbert 49

Engels, Friedrich

24

England

Enlightenment

47

63

Ethiopia 101

Europe

5

19-21

26

32

40-4

54

69

73-5

77

91-3

96

110n9

Fascism [Italy]

s ee

77-8

Fest, Joachim 77

Fiat 81

Finkelstein, Norman G. 100-3

First World War

77.

93

Flossenburg

Foucault, Michel 74

Fourier, Charles

Fourth International 61

France

27-9

31-2

39-41

Frank

Frankfurt School

42

45-50

French revolution

71

Freud, Sigmund 47

Friedländer, Saul 67

Frydman, Zysha 84

Gays

Geras, Norman

121n46

134n19

German Democratic Republic 29

Germany

8-12

52-4

76-8

90-6

99-105

Gobineau, Joseph Arthur de

Goebbels, Josef

Goering, Hermann 13

Goldhagen, Daniel

90-104

134n15-6

Gramsci, Antonio 22

Great Synagogue [Warsaw] 86

Greece 12

Gross-Rosen 68

Guevara, Ernesto Che 107

Gulag

64-5

123n59

Gulf War

Gypsies

65-6

Habermas, Jürgen

102-3

Harvard University

90

Hashomir Hatzair 85

Hasidism 34

Havana 108

Hegel, Georg W.F.

33-4

Heidegger, Martin

115n27

119n26

Hekhalutz 85

Herbert, Ulrich 58

Herzl, Theodor

103

Hess, Rudolf

69-70

Heydrich 14

Hilberg, Raul

58-9

91

119n20

Hill, Christopher 107

Himmler, Heinrich

58

Hiroshima

51

64-6

Hitler, Adolf

62

92-3

Hobbes, Thomas 49

Hobsbawm, Eric

Home Army [Poland] 87

Hook, Sidney 40

Horkheimer, Max

23.

41

Hungary 59

Husserl, Edmund 35

Husson, Edouard 102

IG Farben 14-5

India 25

Indians 53

Inquisition 58

Institute of Ukrainian Studies 77

Irkutsk 69

Israel

Italy

80-1

Jabotinski, Wladimir 85

Japan

Jaspers, Karl

40-1

Jaurès, Jean 21

Jay, Martin 46

Jehovah 's Witnesses 8

Jewish Fighting Organisation [JFO] 85-7

Judaism [religion]

114n23

Judenrat [Jewish Council] 82-5

Jäckel, Eberhard

134n15

Kafka, Franz

Karski, Jan 82

Kautsky, Karl

Kazakhstan 68

Kershaw, Ian

94

Khmer Rouge 3

Kigali 19

Kracauer, Siegfried 72

Krakow 16

Kristallnacht

93-4

Krupp, Alfred 58

Labour Zionism 43

Lanzmann, Claude 52

Lapouge, Georges Vacher de 52

Latin America

Lazare, Bernard

Le Bon, Gustave 32

Left Paole Tsion 85

Leijkin, Jacob 85

Lenin, Vladimir I.

Leon, Abram

45

Lessing, Gotthold E. 39

Levi, Primo

Lewis, Bernard 76

Life 100

Lodz 81

Losurdo, Domenico 125n5

Lower Bavaria 94

Lublin

Lueger, Karl

Lukács, Georg

Luther, Martin

Luxemburg, Rosa

Lévi, Sylvain 34

Lévy, Benny

114n22

Löwenthal, Leo

Löwy, Michael 118n11

MacDonald, Dwight 41

Madagascar 12

Maimonides, Moses 34

Majdanek

Managua 108

Mandel, Ernest

50-62

119-20n29

Mann, Thomas

Marcuse, Herbert

55.

119n21.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-146) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84964-025-4