Understanding The Nazi Genocide: Marxism after Auschwitz
In Understanding the Nazi Genocide Enzo Traverso sustains a dialogue with writings on the Shoah from Hannah Arendt to Daniel Goldhagen by drawing on the critical and heretical Marxism of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School, which grasped late capitalism’s pent-up capacity for destructive upheavals exacerbated by bureaucratic organisation and advanced technology. After Auschwitz, Hiroshima and the gulag, the old warning slogan - socialism or barbarism - formulated by European Marxists at...
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Enzo Traverso's Understanding the Nazi Genocide draws on the critical and heretical Marxism of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School.
ForewordIntroduction 1. Auschwitz, Marx and the twentieth century2. The blindness of the intellectuals: historicising Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew3. On the edge of understanding: from the Frankfurt School to Ernest Mandel4. The uniqueness of Auschwitz: hypotheses, problems and wrong turns in historical research5. The debt: the Warsaw Ghetto uprising6. The Shoah, historians and the public use of history: on the Goldhagen affairConclusion BibliographyIndex
