On looking into the Abyss: untimely thoughts on culture and society

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Argues that the "New History's" attempt to describe daily life under the Nazis excludes any understanding of the evil inherent in the society and effectively writes the Nazi leadership out of history. Shows that deconstruction's denial of any genuine historical reality tends towards Holocaust denial, connecting this with Heidegger's and de Man's refusal to condemn their Nazi past.

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