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"The Future of a Negation" is a crucial statement on the
Holocaust--and on Holocaust denial--from Alain Finkielkraut, one of
the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary
Europe.
The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European
thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its
full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as
historical fact. Finkielkraut's central topic is the impulse toward
"negation" of the Nazi horrors: the arguments made by many people,
of varying political orientations, that "the gas chambers are a
hoax or, in any case, an unverifiable rumor." In addition,
Finkielkraut looks at other instances of twentieth-century mass
murder and at arguments made by contemporary politicians and
intellectuals that similarly deny the full extent of these other
atrocities. An original, fearless book, "The Future of a Negation"
is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust
and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.
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