The Desire to Understand and the Politics of Wissenschaft: an Analysis of the Historikerstreit  

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Peacock, Mark

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of the Human Sciences vol. 14 no. 4 (Nov. 2001), page 87–110.
Topik: Habermas; Historikerstreit; Holocaust; Nolte; understanding
Fulltext: 87.pdf (120.76KB)

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In 1986, a debate – der Historikerstreit (the historians’ dispute) – erupted in the German public sphere. It involved a number of historians who attempted to ‘revise’ approaches to the study of the Holocaust. Their endeavours met with fierce opposition, most notably from Jürgen Habermas, who accused them of trying to endow Germany with a presentable political image by relativizing the Holocaust. This article examines the conduct of the debate, in particular the manner in which each side alleged of the other that it was driven by political motives rather than wissenschaftliche interests. I consider the way in which Ernst Nolte tries to ‘understand’ the Holocaust, and discuss the diffi- culties of investigating the Holocaust in a wissenschaftlichen manner

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