The future of a negation
Subtitle: reflections on the question of genocide
By: Alain Finkielkraut ; translated by Mary Byrd Kelly ; with an introduction by Richard J. Golsan.
Series: Texts and contexts
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Holocaust denial; Socialism and antisemitism
Description: The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact.

Finkielkraut's central topic is the impulse toward "negation" of the Nazi horrors: the arguments made by many people, of varying political orientations, that "the gas chambers are a hoax or, in any case, an unverifiable rumor." In addition, Finkielkraut looks at other instances of twentieth-century mass murder and at arguments made by contemporary politicians and intellectuals that similarly deny the full extent of these other atrocities.

An original, fearless book, The Future of a Negation is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-142) and index.