Understanding The Nazi Genocide: Marxism after Auschwitz »

Born in Italy, Enzo Traverso was lecturer in Jewish Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris. He currently teaches political science at the Jules Verne University of Amiens. Two of his earlier books have been published in English, The Marxists and the Jewish Question (1994) and The Jews and Germany (1995).

Enzo Traverso's Understanding the Nazi Genocide draws on the critical and heretical Marxism of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School.

Foreword

Introduction

1. Auschwitz, Marx and the twentieth century

2. The blindness of the intellectuals: historicising Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew

3. On the edge of understanding: from the Frankfurt School to Ernest Mandel

4. The uniqueness of Auschwitz: hypotheses, problems and wrong turns in historical research

5. The debt: the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

6. The Shoah, historians and the public use of history: on the Goldhagen affair

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index