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1 online resource (ix, 203 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Empathy, suffering, and Holocaust "pornography" -- Goldhagen's celebrity, numbness, and writing history -- Indifference and the language of victimization -- Who was the "real" Hitler? |
| Summary |
When we are confronted with images of and memoirs from the Holocaust and subsequent cases of vast cruelty and suffering, is our impulse to empathize put at risk by the possibility of becoming numb to horror? Carolyn J. Dean's provocative new book addresses the ways we evade our failures of empathy in the face of massive suffering: Has exposure (or overexposure) to representations of pain damaged our ability to feel? Do the frequent claims that artistic representations of extreme cruelty are pornographic allow us to dodge the real issues that we must confront in attempting to come to terms with suffering? Does an excess of terror place constraints on compassion?Dean examines the very different representations of suffering found in visual media, history writing, cultural criticism, and journalism that grapple with the assumption that Americans and Western Europeans have been rendered numb and their appropriate human responses blunted by the events of the past century. The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust will be of interest to all readers concerned with contemporary "victim culture," Holocaust representation, and humanism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-195) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects
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National socialism and homosexuality.
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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Ethics.
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Historiography.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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National socialism and homosexuality.
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Ethik
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Judenvernichtung
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Gedenken
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Holocaust.
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Geschiedschrijving.
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Empathie.
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Gevoelloosheid.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501732409 |
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1501732404 |
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