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Beyond the Conceivable - Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Conceivable - Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism, 20
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The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in
Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition.
They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends
traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an
epistemologically distinct approach. One can no longer assume that
actors as well as historians are operating in the same conceptual
universe, sharing the same criteria of rational discourse. This is
particularly true of victims and perpetrators, whose memories shape
the distortions of historical narrative in ways often diametrically
opposed.
The essays are divided into three groups. The first group talks
about anti-Semitism in the context of the 1930s and the ideologies
that drove the Nazi regime. The second group concentrates on the
almost unbelievably different perceptions of the "Final Solution,"
with particularly illuminating discussions of the Judenrat, or
Jewish council. The third group considers the Holocaust as the
subject of narrative and historical memory. Diner focuses above all
on perspectives: the very notions of rationality and irrationality
are seen to be changeable, depending on who is applying them. And
because neither rational nor irrational motives can be universally
assigned to participants in the Holocaust, Diner proposes, from the
perspective of the victims, the idea of the counterrational. His
work is directed toward developing a theory of Holocaust
historiography and offers, clearly and coherently, the highest
level of reflection on these problems.
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