Franco Ferrarotti

The Temptation to Forget

Racism, Anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazism

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Produktbeschreibung

We are nothing in an absolute sense. We are only what we have been-more exactly, what we remember we were. So begins the latest book by one of Europe's most influential modern sociologists, Franco Ferrarotti. In The Temptation to Forget, Ferrarotti examines how many in the waning years of the 20th century are attempting to forget or reinvent history to serve the purposes of ethnic, racial, or religious separation. Ferrarotti focuses on anti-Semitism and its re-emergence among the Skinheads of the 1980s to draw parallels to how the Holocaust has been reinterpreted/forgotten, and to analyze the implications of this for relations with other ethnic, racial, and religious minorities. Ethnic cleansing may be a new term, but, as Ferrarotti illustrates, it has a long heritage in thought and action. This book will make for provocative reading among professional sociologists and students of contemporary social issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780313294433
• ISBN-10: 0313294437
• Artikelnr.: 25570148

Autorenporträt

Franco Ferrarotti is professor of sociology and chariman of the PhD program in social science at the University of Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Carpentras: The Attack on Memory The Moral Imperative of Remembrance The
Two Thirty Years' Wars The Charismatic Leader and the Significance of the
Enemy The Jew as "Hostis": The Enemy Par Excellence, the `Diverse' to
Exterminate The Myth of Aryan Eurocentrism The Responsibilities of Europe
and Its Possible Redemption The Ambiguous Role of Intellectual Avant-Gardes
Race, the Tabu Word Man Is a Memory and a Project for Man The Holocaust as
a Problem of Mankind Races and Cultures Races: Not To Be Confused with
Cultures Beyond Racism: For the Victims, But Also for the Racists
Multicultural Society: Hypotheses and Prospects For Further Reading Index