The Auschwitz Virus
The Auschwitz Virus
Author(s): Przemysław CzaplińskiSubject(s): History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Polish lost generation; profits from the Holocaust; the inexpressible; horror aesthetics; the real; Auschwitz virus
Summary/Abstract: The article presents – based on a review of Sławomir Buryła’s book Tematy (nie) opisane – a polemic with the approach to the Holocaust as an element of the historical process, an element, which can be isolated from modernity and to which loftiness can be assigned. Czapliński contrasts it with the conception of the ‘Auschwitz virus’, according to which morality, economy, and science after the Holocaust shall never be able to separate themselves from it.
Journal: Holocaust Studies and Materials
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 315-327
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English