Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
European Journal of Cultural Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,2 (2000) 147-172
Keywords:
Arendt, Hannah,
;
Foucault, Michel,
;
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.
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Antisemitism History 1800-2000
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners" attributes the Holocaust to the willing cooperation of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Germans, which Goldhagen traced to a specifically German form of eliminationist antisemitism. Claims that Goldhagen's rejection of "functionalism" led him to a "methodological individualism". Recommends supplementing Goldhagen's study of the behavior of the perpetrators with Michel Foucault's late (1988) insights about the way the "microphysics of power" leads people to internalize discipline. Although Foucault had in mind modern Western societies, his view that anticipation of surveillance leads to self-control clarifies Nazi totalitarianism. The Nazi system of behavior control affected peoples' ideas rather than the opposite, as Goldhagen claims.
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