The Holocaust Across the Generations

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Poses the following all but unanswerable question to both its students and its instructors: what is the ineffible legacy of the Holocaust in the ontology of contemporary humanity? In other words, how is humanity different today as a result of the Holocaust having occurred. How does it affect our philosophies of life, of interacting with our families, with strangers, with friends? How does it affect our culture, politics, and psychology? In this sense we will approach the Holocaust, not as a fixed moment in time past, but as a living, breathing phenomonology today. As an anthropologist studies a distant foreign culture we will study ourselves in effort to discern the impact of this historical trauma on our own way of being in the world (ontological a priori).