Understanding the Nazi Genocide Marxism after Auschwitz
| Author/creator | Traverso, Enzo Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Pluto Press Gordonsville : Macmillan [Distributor] |
| Description | 160 p. ill 08.300 x 05.500 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation <div>In<i>Understanding the Nazi Genocide</i>Enzo Traverso sustains a dialogue with writings on the Shoah from Hannah Arendt to Daniel Goldhagen by drawing on the critical and heretical Marxism of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School, which grasped late capitalism’s pent-up capacity for destructive upheavals exacerbated by bureaucratic organisation and advanced technology. After Auschwitz, Hiroshima and the gulag, the old warning slogan - socialism or barbarism - formulated by European Marxists at the beginning of twentieth century needs to be seriously ‘revised’. The choice we face today is no longer between the progress of civilisation and a fall into ancient savagery, but between socialism conceived as a new civilisation and the destruction of humankind. For Traverso the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is an image of what should impel us to rebel: not a sense of inevitable victory, but an ethical imperative.</div> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780745313535 |
| ISBN | 0745313531 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780745313535 |
| Stock number | 00314859 |
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