Assassins of Memory by Pierre Vidal-Naquet
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This is a collection of essays written in the 1980s in response to those who deny the reality of the HolocaustThe 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 Faurisson's 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
Pierre Vidal-Naquet is the author of many books, including The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World and Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (both with Jean-Pierre Vernant) and Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust (Columbia).David Ames Curtis is a translator whose credits include works by Cornelius Castoriadis as well as Vidal-Naquet and Pierre Leveque's Cleisthenes the Athenian.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780231074582 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231074581 |
| Title | Assassins of Memory |
| Author | Pierre Vidal-Naquet |
| Series | European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 1993-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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