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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Enzo Traverso; Janet Lloyd |
ISBN: | 1565847881 9781565847880 |
OCLC Number: | 50982247 |
Language Note: | Originally published as: La Violence nazie : une généalogie européenne. La Fabrique Éditions, 2002. |
Description: | vii, 200 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Discipline, Punishing, Killing -- Conquest -- Destruction: Total War -- Classification and Repression -- Extermination: Nazi Anti-Semitism |
Other Titles: | Violence nazie. |
Responsibility: | by Enzo Traverso ; translated by Janet Lloyd. |
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Abstract:
Traverso rejects the belief that the Holocaust was an historical aberration completely outside the trajectory of Western civilization, and sets out to demonstrate that it was the culmination of Western liberal thought.
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"An important contribution to the debate on the origins of the Nazi crimes against humanity." -Etudes (Paris)"[Enzo Traverso] offers us an absolutely original perspective. . . . [He] isolates, with rare force, the mortifying core of Nazi anti-Semitism." -Lire "Returns ideas to their proper place, at a time when we must reconstruct the fundamental lines of a new project of liberation. . . . Particularly timely. " -Rouge Read more...

