John Katherine

2010 · réf. 051887 — Oxford NY: Oxford University Press 2010. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Black boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 776 informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics ethics and religion. Forward-looking and multi-disciplinary this handbook draws on the work of an international team of forty-seven outstanding scholars. The handbook is thematically divided into five broad sections. Part One Enablers concentrates on the broad and necessary contextual conditions for the Holocaust. Part Two Protagonists concentrates on the principal persons and groups involved in the Holocaust and attempts to disaggregate the conventional interpretive categories of perpetrator victim and bystander. It examines the agency of the Nazi leaders and killers and of those involved in resisting and surviving the assault. Part Three Settings concentrates on the particular places sites and physical circumstances where the actions of the Holocaust's protagonists and the forms of persecution were literally grounded. Part Four Representations engages complex questions about how the Holocaust can and should be grasped and what meaning or lack of meaning might be attributed to events through historical analysis interpretation of texts artistic creation and criticism and philosophical and religious reflection. Part Five Aftereffects explores the Holocaust's impact on politics and ethics education and religion national identities and international relations the prospects for genocide prevention and the defense of human rights. Oxford University Press hardcover