Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 13:45:45 -0500 From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu> Subject: PLC: Goldhagen anyone? Daniel Goldhagen is coming to Skidmore, and I'll have a chance to speak with him. I am neither a sociologist, nor historian, nor cognoscento in group psychology. But I have serious reservations about Goldhagen's claims in _Hilter's Willing Executioners_, and in subsequent interviews, reservations that I might characterize as hermeneutic or, given a certain reading, epistemological in nature. If anyone has any questions or comments along these lines that I might be able to take into consideration when formulating my questions, I'd be much obligued. I can say as a philosopher and one concerned with language, literature, etc., I'm not interested in this point in the moral horror of the holocaust, and this is not a provocation to take another round in Nazi bashing, etc. Regards, Reg --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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