 | The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust Subjects: Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Influence; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945 -- Historiography; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects; National socialism and homosexuality; When we are confronted with images of and memoirs from the Holocaust and subsequent cases of vast cruelty and suffering, is our impulse to empathize put at risk by the possibility of becoming numb to horror? Carolyn J. Dean's provocative new book... Carolyn J. Dean is Professor of History and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France ; Sexuality and Modern Western Culture ; and The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject . |
