Lessons and Legacies IX (Paperback)

Jonathan Petropoulos

ISBN 10: 0810126397 / ISBN 13: 9780810126398

Published by Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2009

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Paperback. Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future contains the highlights from the ninth 'Lessons and Legacies' conference. The conference, held during the height of the genocide in Darfur, sought to reexamine how the darkness of the Holocaust continues to shadow human existence more than sixty years after World War II left the Third Reich in ruins. The collection opens with Saul Friedlander's call for interdisciplinary approaches to Holocaust research. The essays that follow draw on the latest methodologies in the fields of history, literature, philosophy, religion, film, and gender studies, among others. Together both the leading scholars of the Holocaust and the next generation of scholars engage the difficult reality - as raised by editors Petropoulos, Rapaport, and Roth in their introduction - that the legacies of the Holocaust have not proved sufficient in intervening against human-made mass death, let alone preventing or eliminating it. The ninth 'Lessons and Legacies' conference, held during the height of the genocide in Darfur, sought to reexamine how the darkness of the Holocaust continues to shadow human existence more than sixty years after World War II left the Third Reich in ruins. This collection contains the highlights from the conference. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lessons and Legacies IX (Paperback)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Evanston
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810126397
• ISBN 13: 9780810126398
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future contains the highlights from the ninth "Lessons and Legacies" conference. The conference, held during the height of the genocide in Darfur, sought to reexamine how the darkness of the Holocaust continues to shadow human existence more than sixty years after World War II left the Third Reich in ruins.

The collection opens with Saul Friedländer’s call for interdisciplinary approaches to Holocaust research. The essays that follow draw on the latest methodologies in the fields of history, literature, philosophy, religion, film, and gender studies, among others. Together both the leading scholars of the Holocaust and the next generation of scholars engage the difficult reality—as raised by editors Petropoulos, Rapaport, and Roth in their introduction—that the legacies of the Holocaust have not proved sufficient in intervening against human-made mass death, let alone preventing or eliminating it.

About the Author

Jonathan Petropoulos is the John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College.

Lynn Rapaport is a professor of sociology at Pomona College.

John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College.