In Times of Crisis: Essays on European

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 creations -- and, perhaps in subtly paradoxical and interrelated ways, our century's darkest genocidal moments. In Times of Crisis explores the flashpoints of this vexed relationship.

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 ramifications of Nazism but also brings into focus issues often overshadowed or distorted by the Holocaust.

These essays reveal the ubiquitous effects of Nazi genocide within our own culture and illuminate

Preface

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Part I: The Crisis of Culture -- Then and Now

Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Nordau, and Degeneration

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Thinking the Nietzsche Legacy Today: A Historian's Perspective

13

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Against Social Science: Jewish Intellectuals, the Critique of Liberal-Bourgeois Modernity, and the (Ambiguous) Legacy of Radical Weimar Theory

24

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Nazism and the Holocaust in Contemporary Culture

44

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Part II: (Con) Fusions of Identity -- Germans and Jews

Excursus: Growing Up German Jewish in South Africa

59

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Assimilation and Its Impossible Discontents: The Case of Moritz Goldstein

64

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Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem

73

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German History and German Jewry: Junctions, Boundaries, and Interdependencies

86

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Archetypes and the German Jewish Dialogue: Reflections Occasioned by the Goldhagen Affair

93

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Part III: Understanding Nazism and the Holocaust: Competing Models and Radical Paradigms

Nazism, Normalcy, and the German Sonderweg

105

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Nazism, Culture, and The Origins of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and the Discourse of Evil

122

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Post-Holocaust Jewish Mirrorings of Germany: Hannah Arendt and Daniel Goldhagen

137

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Part IV: Historians, History, and the Holocaust

Reconceiving the Holocaust? Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners

147

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George Mosse at 80: A Critical Laudation

155

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On Saul Friedlander

171

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Notes

197

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Index

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In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews

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