Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
40 (2012) 189-212
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Ecology
;
Jewish philosophy
Abstract:
The 1990s saw the emergence of a new and surprising area of research that drew connections between the Nazi movement and the Green movement. Historians tried to determine whether there were green elements in the Nazi Party, movement, and regime. One of the leading books in the field is titled How Green Were the Nazis?, indicating that the question of whether the Nazis were green in some way appears to have already been answered in the affirmative.In the first section of my article I discuss the question of a possible connection between the Nazi movement and the Green movement. I examine whether it is possible to see the Holocaust not only as an ideological, political, socioeconomic, ethnic, and racist project, but also as an ecological project, in the broad sense of ecology both as a worldview and a practice, based on the nineteenth-century definition of the concept. In the second section I examine whether it is possible to see ecology as a paradigm and methodology by means of which one may advance the study of the Holocaust. In the third section I suggest that the Holocaust may be viewed as ecocide, murder of the world. In light of this discussion, in the fourth and last section I present the connection between the phenomenon of Nazism in general and the Holocaust in particular, on the one hand, and the discipline of ecology, which I understand as the entire body of knowledge and practice related to the environment.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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