Visualizing Atrocity: Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness, Valerie Hartouni (New York: New York University Press, 2012), 205 pp., cloth 75.00, paperback 23.00, electronic version available
Valerie Hartouni's volume reinterprets Hannah Arendt's controversial reflections on political evil in the twentieth century. Hartouni's preface critiques “conventional” historiography and its “curiously reassuring polemics,” highlighting the incongruity of rendering the Nazi genocide...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 353-356 |
| Review of: | Visualizing atrocity (New York, NY [u.a.] : New York University Press, 2012) (Court, Anthony)
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| Summary: | Valerie Hartouni's volume reinterprets Hannah Arendt's controversial reflections on political evil in the twentieth century. Hartouni's preface critiques “conventional” historiography and its “curiously reassuring polemics,” highlighting the incongruity of rendering the Nazi genocide as a “benchmark” or “paradigm” on the one hand, and, on the other hand, making it a uniquely aberrant, extra-historical, and hence “unknowable event” (pp. 10–11, 13, 17, 18, 34, 70, 113)., Hartouni's approach entails reassessing the role of functionaries and processes in Nazi mass crimes. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu024 |