Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 21:01:00 +0200
From: Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms-AT-xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [BOU:] The Meaning of the Holocaust


Maybe I'm wrong, I'm just wondering if here's some symbolic violence 
involved?

erik

Par Engholm wrote:

> Hello all!
> Well there are no moderators on the list, but perhaps could we could 
> exercise some self-criticism.
> I don't know whether the horror experienced by Ismail 
> (iil01-AT-aber.ac.uk) was occasioned by Pierre's remark or by Daedalus's 
> incomprehensive question, but I would imagine Bourdieu exclaiming 
> sheer horror by reading such palpable misanthropic crap on a list 
> devoted to his work. I could understand how such revisionist 
> standpoints could get a foothold in scholastic philosophical milieus 
> which Bourdieu rightly criticised in a series of publications or in 
> political bastions where impotence and powerlessness would make them 
> deny the reality of everything.
>
> This is not only a matter of anti-semitism. It has much further 
> consequences. It is a matter of how we are to conduct anything which 
> could qualify as socioanalysis in Bourdieu's sense. The criminal 
> behaviour of Israel is not an excuse for anyone denying one of the 
> most horrible facts from the bloodstained history of mankind. Neither 
> does the Holocaust provide the jews with any license to treat the 
> Palestinians the way they now do. If we are to learn anything from our 
> history we would better start being sincere and keep away from using 
> history as weapons against our enemies, real or imagined.
>
> Please Daedalus. Go trade your murky business somewhere else, or, 
> better, start to think. Start to practice some of what Bourdieu has 
> taught us.
>
> Pär


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