Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Philosophy & Social Criticism
Angaben zur Quelle:
22,1 (1996) 101-113
Schlagwort(e):
Foucault, Michel,
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Holocaust (Christian theology)
Kurzfassung:
In his published works, the French philosopher Michel Foucault (who was a high school student in Poitiers at the time of the Nazi occupation of France) included no sustained meditation on Nazism and the Holocaust. But from comments he made on Nazism, racism and blood it may be deduced that he saw in Auschwitz and its death-world a culmination of the techniques of domination, the objectification of humans, that make up a crucial component of "the history of the present". What is original in his vision is an historical contextualization which situates Nazism and the Final Solution within the carceral archipelago that has been generated by modernity itself. His ability to expose the dark side of modernity makes Foucault a central figure both in comprehending the event of the Holocaust and in foreseeing the danger of possible new holocausts.
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