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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Tác giả chính: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3mtbfs
Mục lục:
  • Empathy, suffering, and Holocaust "pornography"
  • Goldhagen's celebrity, numbness, and writing history
  • Indifference and the language of victimization
  • Who was the "real" Hitler?