In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews

Contents

vii Contents Preface ix Part I: The Crisis of Culture—Then and Now 1. Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Nordau, and Degeneration 3 2. Thinking the Nietzsche Legacy Today: A Historian’s Perspective 13 3. Against Social Science: Jewish Intellectuals, the Critique of Liberal-Bourgeois Modernity, and the (Ambiguous) Legacy of Radical Weimar Theory 24 4. Nazism and the Holocaust in Contemporary Culture 44 Part II: (Con)Fusions of Identity—Germans and Jews 5. Excursus: Growing Up German Jewish in South Africa 59 6. Assimilation and Its Impossible Discontents: The Case of Moritz Goldstein 64 7. Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem 73 8. German History and German Jewry: Junctions, Boundaries, and Interdependencies 86 9. Archetypes and the German Jewish Dialogue: Reflections Occasioned by the Goldhagen Affair 93 Part III: Understanding Nazism and the Holocaust: Competing Models and Radical Paradigms 10. Nazism, Normalcy, and the German Sonderweg 105 viii Contents 11. Nazism, Culture, and The Origins of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and the Discourse of Evil 122 12. Post-Holocaust Jewish Mirrorings of Germany: Hannah Arendt and Daniel Goldhagen 137 Part IV: Historians, History, and the Holocaust 13. Reconceiving the Holocaust? Daniel Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners 147 14. George Mosse at 80: A Critical Laudatio 155 15. On Saul Friedlander 171 Notes 197 Index 265 ...