Zagłada Żydów jako europejskie doświadczenie transgresyjne
Holocaust as a transgressive european experience
Author(s): Jakub GreloffSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Jewish studies, Sociology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Sociology of Culture, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Holocaust; Europe; society; transgression; politics
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the subject bordering on two areas: historical remembrance and the theory of politics. The Second World War, including Holocaust, as irrational historical catastrophe, was a traumatic experience for the European societies. The magnitude of this catastrophe discredited the concept of historical thinking founded on a reason that exists within historical process. Holocaust uncovered the destructive power rooted in modernity itself. The political elites had to find an answer to a question how, in the middle of Europe with cultural identity founded on: Greek philosophy, Roman law and Judeo-Christian tradition, such inhuman crimes took place. The starting point of the article is Holocaust as a process of social destructive transgression, both to Jews and European societies. The ending point – Holocaust as phenomenon initiating constructive transgression: foundation of the Israel country and the new post-war order in Europe.
Journal: Pisma Humanistyczne
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: XIII
- Page Range: 133-151
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Polish