Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust by Pierre Vidal-Naque

Description: Assassins of Memory by Pierre Vidal-Naquet An account of one of the more curious realities of contemporary French culture: the prominence accorded to "revisionism". This is an attempt on the part of a specific group to deny the existence of Hitlers Holocaust. The study reveals the underlying causes of revisionism and its influence. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Assassins of Memory" is a passionate and painstaking look at one of the more curious realities of recent French cultural life: the prominence accorded to the phenomenon of "revisionism". An attempt on the part of a tiny group of fanatics, often masquerading as scholars and researchers, to deny the existence of the gas chambers and horrors of Hitlers genocidal policies, revisionism is quietly gaining adherents. The movement has been most visible in France in the past decade, particularly because of the trial of Klaus Barbie and the writings of Robert Faurisson. Revisionists are more prevalent and are gaining followers in other countries, including the United States, where the "Journal of Historical Review" is devoted to revisionist thought and where a current presidential candidate has expressed what could be described as revisionist ideas. "Assassins of Memory" exposes revisionism for the deeply perverse enterprise it is, laying bare the mechanisms of lies and manipulations on which it is sustained. More than this, it asks searching questions about the underlying causes of revisionism and its influences and diffusion in France and elsewhere.The book is particularly illuminating on the role the American linguist Noam Chomsky has played as writer of a preface to one of the movements more influential tracts. Underlying Vidal-Naquets argument is the question: is it acceptable for people to spread evil ideas, or should they be suppressed? Author Biography Vidal-Naquet is the author of many books Review This is a collection of essays written in the 1980s in response to those who deny the reality of the Holocaust. The writer, a scholar of ancient Greece who teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris, is torn by the dilemma of how to provide a necessary critique of academics who reject the genocide of European Jewry without at the same time dignifying them as a possibly legitimate "revisionist" school of intellectual thought. Vidal-Naquet writes persuasively and often passionately in response to Robert Faurisson, a French professor of literature, whose arguments have appeared in Le Monde and other outlets for French intellectuals, and also takes to task American linguist Noam Chomsky, who wrote a preface to one of Faurissons books. Vidal-Naquet offers an interesting perspective on a debate that should not have taken place. For informed readers. Library Journal In these essays the eminent French classicist Pierre Vidal-Naquet engages the issues raised by the denial of the Holocaust with an extraordinary fusion of moral passion and historical vigor. -- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Columbia University Review Quote "This is a collection of essays written in the 1980s in response to those who deny the reality of the Holocaust. The writer, a scholar of ancient Greece who teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris, is torn by the dilemma of how to provide a necessary critique of academics who reject the genocide of European Jewry without at the same time dignifying them as a possibly legitimate "revisionist" school of intellectual thought. Vidal-Naquet writes persuasively and often passionately in response to Robert Faurisson, a French professor of literature, whose arguments have appeared in Le Monde and other outlets for French intellectuals, and also takes to task American linguist Noam Chomsky, who wrote a preface to one of Faurissons books. Vidal-Naquet offers an interesting perspective on a debate that should not have taken place. For informed readers." -- Library Journal Details ISBN0231074581 Author Pierre Vidal-Naquet Short Title ASSASSINS OF MEMORY Pages 232 Publisher Columbia University Press Language English Translator Jefrey Mehlman ISBN-10 0231074581 ISBN-13 9780231074582 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 1993 Imprint Columbia University Press Subtitle Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Birth 1930 Residence US Illustrations black & white illustrations Translated from French DOI 10.1604/9780231074582 UK Release Date 1993-02-18 AU Release Date 1993-02-18 NZ Release Date 1993-02-18 US Release Date 1993-02-18 Series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Publication Date 1993-02-18 DEWEY 944.083 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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