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The Origins of Nazi Violence (2002)

by Enzo Traverso

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In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now, in a brilliant synthesis of this work, Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final, terrible moment in European modernity's industrialization of killing and dehumanization of death. Traverso upends the conventional presentation of the Holocaust as an inexplicable anomaly, navigating an excess of antecedents both technical and cultural. Deftly tracing a complex lineage--the guillotine and machine gun, the prison and assembly line, as well as widespread ideologies of racial supremacy and colonial expansion--Traverso reveals that the ideas that coalesced at Auschwitz came from Europe's mainstream and not its margins.… (more)
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Lo sterminio nazista degli ebrei è visto perlopiù come evento senza precedenti nella storia europea, fiammata insensata di barbarie nel cuore della nostra civiltà. (fonte: Google Books)
  MemorialeSardoShoah | Jun 3, 2020 |
Lo sterminio nazista degli ebrei è considerato un evento senza precedenti nella storia europea, fiammata insensata di barbarie nel cuore della nostra civiltà. In questo breve e stringente saggio, Enzo Traverso intende mostrare invece in quale misura l'Europa dell'Ottocento - l'Europa del capitalismo industriale, dell'imperialismo, del colonialismo, del darwinismo sociale, dell'eugenismo - abbia costituito il laboratorio del nazismo. L'autore pone i campi di sterminio al termine di un lungo processo di meccanizzazione e disumanizzazione della morte, che integra la razionalità produttiva e amministrativa del mondo moderno (la fabbrica, la prigione, la burocrazia). Possiamo vedere come gli stereotipi razzisti e antisemiti attingano ampiamente allo scientismo tardo-ottocentesco; come i genocidi coloniali vengano legittimati in quanto conseguenza ineluttabile della civiltà; infine come venga definendosi una nuova immagine dell'ebreo, in particolare dell'intellettuale, degradato a metafora di una malattia del corpo sociale. La convergenza di questi due piani della violenza, materiale e culturale, inizia a delinearsi dopo la Grande Guerra con la distruzione pianificata e la morte anonima di massa su scala europea, per trovare una sintesi nel nazionalsocialismo. Auschwitz appare così la fusione singolare di diverse forme di dominio e di sterminio già sperimentate, separatamente, nel corso del XIX secolo. ( )
  BiblioLorenzoLodi | Feb 9, 2015 |
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In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now, in a brilliant synthesis of this work, Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final, terrible moment in European modernity's industrialization of killing and dehumanization of death. Traverso upends the conventional presentation of the Holocaust as an inexplicable anomaly, navigating an excess of antecedents both technical and cultural. Deftly tracing a complex lineage--the guillotine and machine gun, the prison and assembly line, as well as widespread ideologies of racial supremacy and colonial expansion--Traverso reveals that the ideas that coalesced at Auschwitz came from Europe's mainstream and not its margins.

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