The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust, Carolyn J. Dean (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004), ix + 203 pp., cloth 45.00, pbk. 18.95
Straightforwardly described by its publisher as a work of history, Carolyn Dean’s The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust is really four loosely-connected essays of cultural criticism that survey a range of Holocaust “representations”—works of history, memoir literature, and art—in order to exp...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 138-141 |
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| Summary: | Straightforwardly described by its publisher as a work of history, Carolyn Dean’s The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust is really four loosely-connected essays of cultural criticism that survey a range of Holocaust “representations”—works of history, memoir literature, and art—in order to explore the larger question of whether the exposure to such representations ultimately puts “our impulse to empathize … at risk” by making us “numb to horror” (back jacket). This question is important at a time when scholars and other critics increasingly question the centrality of the Holocaust in Western consciousness. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcj015 |