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Culture and Catastrophe - German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises (Hardcover, New)
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Culture and Catastrophe - German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises (Hardcover, New)
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Our understanding of culture and of the catastrophe unleashed by
National Socialism have always been regarded as interrelated. For
all its brutality, Nazism always spoke in the name of the great
German tradition, often using such "high culture" to justify
atrocities committed. Were not such actions necessary for the
defense of classical cultural values and ideal images against the
polluted, degenerate groups who sought to sully and defile them?
Ironically, some of National Socialism's victims confronted and
interpreted their experiences precisely through this prism of
culture and catastrophe. Many of these victims had traditionally
regarded Germany as a major civilizing force. In fact, from the
late eighteenth century on, German Jews had constructed themselves
in German culture's image. Many of the German-speaking Jewish
intellectuals who became victims of National Socialism had been
raised and completely absorbed in the German humanistic tradition.
One of the most stark existential dilemmas they were forced to
confront was the stripping away of this spiritual inheritance, the
experience of expropriation from their own culture. 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 centralrelevance of that experience to
contemporary culture and collective individual self-definitions.
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