TY - JOUR
AU1 - Bloxham, Donald
AB - Book Reviews 499 An individual can ‘vanquish his love-hate for the mass and . . . melt into it’ (p. 69) to merge personal battles with collective ones. The revolt becomes a ‘Manichaean’ battle between mythical instantiations: ‘The adversary of the moment truly becomes the enemy, the rifle or club or bicycle chain truly becomes the weapon, the victory of the moment. .. a just and good act’ (p. 53). The outcome is more myth. The revolt results in freedom and knowledge, freedom and knowledge in death, death in ‘the apologia of death’ and ‘the apologia of death’ in myth (p. 83). Spartakus is a product of its time, a recondite theorization of revolt presumably meant to stake a claim, on behalf of the student movements of 1968, on Europe’s revolutionary- aesthetic tradition. As far as that goes, it is a historical document in itself that sits somewhere at the abstract end of a continuum joining Situationists, the Frankfurt School and the Red Army Faction. It has the potential to inspire readers to think about the temporality of revo- lution, but will supply them with little to no historical material with which to make a case in this regard. On violence, mimesis and 
TI - The Crisis of Genocide, vol. I: Devastation: The European Rimlands, 1912–1938The Crisis of Genocide, vol. II: Annihilation: The European Rimlands, 193 ...
JF - German History
DO - 10.1093/gerhis/ghv054
DA - 2015-09-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-crisis-of-genocide-vol-i-devastation-the-european-rimlands-1912-30HHIIdLDs
SP - 499
EP - 501
VL - 33
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -