In The Future of the Holocaust, Berel Lang continues his inquiry
into the causal mechanisms of decision-making and conduct in Nazi
Germany and into responses to the genocide by individuals and
nations -- an inquiry that he began in Act and Idea in the Nazi
Genocide and pursued in Heidegger's Silence. Raising the question
now of what the future of the Holocaust is, he addresses among
other topics how history and memory together shape views of the
Holocaust; how the concept of "intention" -- which played a crucial
part in the events of haft a century ago -- shapes history and
memory themselves; and how future views of this genocide may alter
those of today.
In addition, Lang explores cultural representations of the
"Final Solution" -- from monuments to public school curricula --
within the Jewish and German communities. He analyzes ethical
issues concerning such concepts as intention, responsibility,
forgiveness, and revenge, and puts forward a theory of the history,
of evil which provides a context for the Holocaust both
historically and morally. Addressing the claims that the Nazi
genocide was unique, Lang argues that the Holocaust is at once an
actual series of events and a still future possibility. If the
Holocaust occurred once, he argues, it can occur twice -- and this
view of the future remains an unavoidable premise for anyone now
writing or thinking about that event in the past.
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