The fragility of empathy after the Holocaust /
When we are confronted with images of and memoirs from the Holocaust and subsequent cases of vast cruelty and suffering, is our impulse to empathize put at risk by the possibility of becoming numb to horror? Carolyn J. Dean's provocative new book addresses the ways we evade our failures of empa...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3mtbfs |
Table of Contents:
- Empathy, suffering, and Holocaust "pornography"
- Goldhagen's celebrity, numbness, and writing history
- Indifference and the language of victimization
- Who was the "real" Hitler?