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The Temptation to Forget Racism, Anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazism
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By Franco Ferrarotti
ISBN: 0-313-29443-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29443-3
200 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/1994
List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in Sociology
Series Number: 110
Description: "We are nothing in an absolute sense. We are only what we have been-more exactly, what we remember we were." So begins the latest book by one of Europe's most influential modern sociologists, Franco Ferrarotti. In The Temptation to Forget, Ferrarotti examines how many in the waning years of the 20th century are attempting to "forget" or reinvent history to serve the purposes of ethnic, racial, or religious separation. Ferrarotti focuses on anti-Semitism and its re-emergence among the "Skinheads" of the 1980s to draw parallels to how the Holocaust has been reinterpreted/forgotten, and to analyze the implications of this for relations with other ethnic, racial, and religious minorities. "Ethnic cleansing" may be a new term, but, as Ferrarotti illustrates, it has a long heritage in thought and action. This book will make for provocative reading among professional sociologists and students of contemporary social issues.
Table of Contents:
  • Carpentras: The Attack on Memory
  • The Moral Imperative of Remembrance
  • The Two Thirty Years' Wars
  • The Charismatic Leader and the Significance of the Enemy
  • The Jew as "Hostis": The Enemy Par Excellence, the `Diverse' to Exterminate
  • The Myth of Aryan Eurocentrism
  • The Responsibilities of Europe and Its Possible Redemption
  • The Ambiguous Role of Intellectual Avant-Gardes
  • Race, the Tabu Word
  • Man Is a Memory and a Project for Man
  • The Holocaust as a Problem of Mankind
  • Races and Cultures
  • Races: Not To Be Confused with Cultures
  • Beyond Racism: For the Victims, But Also for the Racists
  • Multicultural Society: Hypotheses and Prospects
  • For Further Reading
  • Index
LC Card Number: 94-22026
LCC Class: HT1521
Dewey Class: 305.8
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