| Description |
1 online resource (286 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Weimar and now ; 20
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Weimar and now ; 20.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-272) and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1. On the Brink of Dictatorship; 2. Knowledge of Expansion: On the Geopolitics of Karl Haushofer; 3. Norms for Domination: Nazi Legal Concepts of World Order; 4. The Catastrophe before the Catastrophe:; 5. The Limits of Reason; 6. Beyond the Conceivable; 7. Historical Understanding and Counterrationality; 8. On Rationality and Rationalization; 9. Historical Experience and Cognition; 10. Varieties of Narration; 11. Nazism and Stalinism; 12. Cumulative Contingency; 13. On Guilt Discourse and Other Narrations; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, have been collected in this English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires and epistemologically distinct approach. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.
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Germany. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1918-1933 |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism.
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Germany.
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Memory -- Social aspects. |
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Memory. |
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Nationalism -- Germany.
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Nationalism. |
| Chronological Term |
1918-1945 |
| Indexed Term |
Humaniora Historie. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Personal narratives.
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Personal narratives.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Diner, Dan, 1946- Beyond the conceivable. Berkley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2000 0520213459 (DLC) 99047175 (OCoLC)42437115 |
| ISBN |
9780520920842 (electronic book) |
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0520920848 (electronic book) |
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0585391750 (electronic book) |
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9780585391755 (electronic book) |
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9780520213456 (alkaline paper) |
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0520213459 (alkaline paper) |
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