Robert Eaglestone

Publisher Fact Sheet This timely book asks whether postmodernism promotes & defends thinking that denies the occurrence of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany?

Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial

Donald

This book is basically a short essay. It isn't ground-breaking, but it's a good introduction to the debate about the alleged relationship between postmodernism and Holocaust denial.

Eaglestone defines history as a genre rather than an expression of objectivity (which he argues is impossible). Thus, the problem with Holocaust denial is not that it is "bad history" - it is just not history at all. It is an expression of anti-semitism and racism and needs to be rejected outright, not argued with.