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The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust / Carolyn J. Dean.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 3 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9781501732409
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/18 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Empathy, Suffering, and Holocaust “Pornography” -- CHAPTER TWO. Goldhagen’s Celebrity, Numbness, and Writing History -- CHAPTER THREE. Indifference and the Language of Victimization -- CHAPTER FOUR. Who Was the “Real” Hitler? -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Empathy, Suffering, and Holocaust “Pornography” -- CHAPTER TWO. Goldhagen’s Celebrity, Numbness, and Writing History -- CHAPTER THREE. Indifference and the Language of Victimization -- CHAPTER FOUR. Who Was the “Real” Hitler? -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- INDEX

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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