Markle grasps at the Holocaust, not only from the writings of survivors and academic specialists, but also from his experience as a ‘tourist’ of the Holocaust. He challenges the way we typically think about the Holocaust: them versus us; then versus now; there versus here. He travels across time, place, and subject to ponder the meaning of the Holocaust for contemporary cultures.
Table of Content
stone soup
1. thinking
snapshots
gray
approaches
meditation
2. banality
eichmann
ordinary killers
ordinary people
are we all nazis?
abraham’s choice
3. bureaucracy
routine slaughter
two visions
blood and honor
functionalism
forgetting
krema
4. modernity
total domination
gardening
medical experiments
the american connection
enlightment?
a dialogue
5. after
in memoriam
collective memory
historiography
today
anamnesis
an ending?
another ending
references
author index
subject index
About the author
Gerald E. Markle is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University.
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