TY  - GEN
T1  - The fragility of empathy after the Holocaust
A1  - Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn700984309
AB  - 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 empathy in the face of massive suffering: Has exposure (or overexposure) to representations of pain damaged our ability to feel? Do the frequent claims that artistic representations of extreme cruelty are pornographic allow us to dodge the real issues that we must confront in attempting to come to terms with suffering? Does an excess of terror place constraints on compassion?Dean examines the very different representations of suffering found in visual media, history writing, cultural criticism, and journalism that grapple with the assumption that Americans and Western Europeans have been rendered numb and their appropriate human responses blunted by the events of the past century. The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust will be of interest to all readers concerned with contemporary "victim culture," Holocaust representation, and humanism.
OP  - 203
CN  - D804.348 .D43 2004
SN  - 9781501732409
SN  - 1501732404
SN  - 0801441625
SN  - 9780801441622
SN  - 080148944X
SN  - 9780801489440
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Influence.
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Historiography.
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Moral and ethical aspects.
KW  - National socialism and homosexuality.
KW  - Holocauste, 1939-1945 : Historiographie.
KW  - Holocauste, 1939-1945 : Aspect moral.
KW  - Nazisme et homosexualité.
KW  - HISTORY : Historiography.
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - National socialism and homosexuality
KW  - Ethik
KW  - Judenvernichtung
KW  - Geschichtsschreibung
KW  - Gedenken
KW  - Holocaust.
KW  - Geschiedschrijving.
KW  - Empathie.
KW  - Gevoelloosheid.
KW  - 1939-1945
ER  -