Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

✍ Scribed by Diner, Dan

• Book ID: 125978678
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2000;2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Standards
• ISBN-13: 9780520213456

✦ Synopsis

The major essays of Dan Diner are finally collected in this English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One can no longer assume that actors as well as historians are operating in the same conceptual universe, sharing the same criteria of rational discourse. This is particularly true of victims and perpetrators, whose memory shapes the distortions of historical narrative in ways often diametrically opposed.

✦ Subjects

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