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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Autor principal: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3mtbfs
Taula de continguts:
  • Empathy, suffering, and Holocaust "pornography"
  • Goldhagen's celebrity, numbness, and writing history
  • Indifference and the language of victimization
  • Who was the "real" Hitler?