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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822766903321

Autore

Aschheim Steven E. <1942->

Titolo

In Times of Crisis : Essays on European Culture, Germans and Jews [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, WI, USA, : University of Wisconsin Press, 20010201

University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN

1-282-26896-1

9786612268960

0-299-16863-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

305.892/4043/09

Soggetti

HISTORY

General

Jews - Intellectual life - Germany

Jews - Intellectual life - Europe

Jews - Cultural assimilation - Germany

Jews - Cultural assimilation - Europe

Antisemitism - Germany

Antisemitism - Europe

Middle East

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East

History & Archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Crisis of Culture-Then and Now -- 1. Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Nordau, and Degeneration -- 2. Thinking the Nietzsche Legacy Today: A Historian's Perspective -- 3. Against Social Science: Jewish Intellectuals, the Critique of Liberal-Bourgeois Modernity, and the (Ambiguous) Legacy of Radical Weimar Theory -- 4. Nazism and the Holocaust in Contemporary Culture -- Part II: (Con)Fusions of Identity-Germans and Jews -- 5. Excursus: Growing Up German Jewish in South Africa -- 6. Assimilation and Its Impossible Discontents: The Case of Moritz Goldstein -- 7. Hannah



Arendt in Jerusalem -- 8. German History and German Jewry: Junctions, Boundaries, and Interdependencies -- 9. Archetypes and the German Jewish Dialogue: Reflections Occasioned by the Goldhagen Affair -- Part III: Understanding Nazism and the Holocaust: Competing Models and Radical Paradigms -- 10. Nazism, Normalcy, and the German Sonderweg -- 11. Nazism, Culture, and The Origins of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and the Discourse of Evil -- 12. Post-Holocaust Jewish Mirrorings of Germany: Hannah Arendt and Daniel Goldhagen -- Part IV: Historians, History, and the Holocaust -- 13. Reconceiving the Holocaust? Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners -- 14. George Mosse at 80: A Critical Laudatio -- 15. On Saul Friedlander -- Notes -- Index.