Description
"Steven Aschheim here engages the multiple aspects of German and German-Jewish cultural history which touch upon the intricate interplay between culture and catastrophe, providing insights into the relationship between German culture and the origins, dispositions, and aftermath of National Socialism. He analyzes the designation of Nazism as part of the West's cultural code representing an absolute standard of evil, and sheds light on the problematics of current German, Jewish, and Israeli inscriptions of Nazism and its atrocities, capturing the ongoing central relevance of that experience to contemporary culture and collective individual self-definitions."--BOOK JACKET.
Keywords
HistoriographyJewsIntellectual lifeCriticism and interpretationEthnic relationsHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Views on JudaismBroch, hermann, 1886-1951Jews, germanyGermany, ethnic relationsDisasters, Human beingseffect of environment on"Jews, intellectual lifeNietzsche, friedrich wilhelm, 1844-1900Arendt, hannah, 1906-1975DisastersHuman beings, effect of environment onJuifsVie intellectuelleHolocauste, 1939-1945HistoriographieJudaismAntisemitismusGeisteslebenGeschichteGeschichtswissenschaftJudenJudentumJudenvernichtungKulturNationalsozialismusJodenCulturele betrekkingenNational socialismBMBF-Statusseminar gnd