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paperback. Zustand: Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, fresh attractive copy, fine condition. ASCHHEIM, STEVEN E. In times of crisis: essays on European culture, Germans, and Jews. Madison, Wisc: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001, 1st printing number line ending in 1, x, 269pp., . "The nineteenth- and twentieth-century relationship between European culture, German history, and the Jewish experience produced some of the West's most powerful and enduring intellectual creationsand, perhaps in subtly paradoxical and interrelated ways, our century's darkest genocidal moments. In Times of Crisis explores the flashpoints of this vexed relationship, mapping the coordinates of a complex triangular encounter of immense historical import. In essays that range from the question of Nietzsche's legacy to the controversy over Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, the distinguished historian Steven E. Aschheim presents this encounter as an ongoing dialogue between two evolving cultural identities. He touches on past dimensions of this exchange (such as the politics of Weimar Germany) and on present dilemmas of grasping and representing it (such as the Israeli discourse on the Holocaust). His work inevitably traces the roots and ramifications of Nazism but at the same time brings into focus historical circumstances and contemporary issues often overshadowed or distorted by the Holocaust. These essays reveal the ubiquitous charged inscriptions of Nazi genocide within our own culture and illuminate the projects of some later thinkers and historians - from Hannah Arendt to George Mosse to Saul Friedlander - who have wrestled with its problematics and sought to capture its essence. From the broadly historical to the personal, from the politics of Weimar Germany to the experience of growing up German Jewish in South Africa, the essays expand our understanding of German Jewish history in particular, but also of historical processes in general." - CONTENTS: Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Nordau, and Degeneration -- Thinking the Nietzsche legacy today: a historian's perspective -- Against social science: Jewish intellectuals, the critique of liberal-bourgeois modernity, and the (ambiguous) legacy of radical Weimar theory -- Nazism and the Holocaust in contemporary culture -- Excursus: growing up German Jewish in South Africa. - Assimilation and its impossible discontents: the case of Moritz Goldstein -- Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem -- German history and German Jewry: junctions, boundaries, and interdependencies -- Archetypes and the German Jewish dialogue: reflections occasioned by the Goldhagen affair -- Nazism, normalcy, and the German Sonderweg -- Nazism, culture, and The origins of totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and the discourse of evil. - Post-Holocaust Jewish mirrorings of Germany: Hannah Arendt and Daniel Goldhagen -- Reconceiving the Holocaust? Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's willing executioners -- George Mosse at 80: a critical laudatio -- On Saul Friedlander. 9780299168643 ISBN 0299168646.…

PAPERBACK, near fine copy, appears to be unused, with only slight scuff mark from shelf on bottom foredge. ASCHHEIM, STEVEN E. Culture and catastrophe: German and Jewish confrontations with National Socialism and other crises. New York: New York University Press, 1996, x, 210pp., . "Our understanding of culture and of the catastrophe unleashed by National Socialism have always been regarded as interrelated. For all its brutality, Nazism always spoke in the name of the great German tradition, often using such "high culture" to justify atrocities committed. Were not such actions necessary for the defense of classical cultural values and ideal images against the polluted, degenerate groups who sought to sully and defile them?" "Ironically, some of National Socialism's victims confronted and interpreted their experiences precisely through this prism of culture and catastrophe. Many of these victims had traditionally regarded Germany as a major civilizing force. In fact, from the late eighteenth century on, German Jews had constructed themselves in German culture's image. Many of the German-speaking Jewish intellectuals who became victims of National Socialism had been raised and completely absorbed in the German humanistic tradition. One of the most stark existential dilemmas they were forced to confront was the stripping away of this spiritual inheritance, the experience of expropriation from their own culture." "Steven Aschheim here engages the multiple aspects of German and German-Jewish cultural history which touch upon the intricate interplay between culture and catastrophe, providing insights into the relationship between German culture and the origins, dispositions, and aftermath of National Socialism. He analyzes the designation of Nazism as part of the West's cultural code representing an absolute standard of evil, and sheds light on the problematics of current German, Jewish, and Israeli inscriptions of Nazism and its atrocities, capturing the ongoing central relevance of that experience to contemporary culture and collective individual self-definitions." - CONTENTS: 1. Culture and Catastrophe - 2. German Jews beyond Bildung and Liberalism: The Radical Jewish Revival in the Weimar Republic - 3. 'The Jew Within': The Myth of 'Judaization' in Germany - 4. Nietzsche, Anti-Semitism and Mass Murder - 5. The German-Jewish Dialogue at its Limits: The Case of Hermann Broch and Volkmar von Zuehlsdorff - 6. Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers: Friendship, Catastrophe and the Possibilities of German-Jewish Dialogue - 7. Small Forays, Grand Theories and Deep Origins: Current Trends in the Historiography of the Holocaust. 9780814706428 ISBN 0814706428.…