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Constructing the Holocaust (Hardback)
A Study in Historiography
Imprint: Vallentine Mitchell
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9780853034902
Published: 1st April 2003
Script Academic & Professional
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9780853034902
Published: 1st April 2003
Script Academic & Professional
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Constructing the Holocaust examines the development of Holocaust historiography in the light of recent critical philosophy of history. It argues that the Holocaust provides both the occasion for, and the ultimate test of, new ways of giving meaning to the past. It also shows that examining our representations of the past is as important as archival research for understanding history. The problem under investigation is the paradox of using tools and methods inherited from western civilization in order to write about a set of events - the Holocaust - that impugn fundamental tenets of that very civilization. This paradox, though historians of the Holocaust increasingly acknowledge it, has not been investigated in detail before. This book explains how the paradox arose and why it remains largely unchallenged. It also points to ways of overcoming it.
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