UNSPECIFIED. (2005) Scenographies of suicide: Hitler and his victims. ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 34 (2). pp. 261-279. ISSN 0308-5147

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Abstract

Writings on the most extreme concentration camps offer a number of explanations for low rates of suicide. Drawing on philosophical anthropology, this article argues that the categories of 'worldlessness' - deprivation of the means of keeping reality at a distance - and temporal perversion - reduction of the capacity for retention and protention - offer the most general way of formulating the camps' inhumanity and of bringing these explanations together. Following Blumenberg, it is argued that these categories may also be used to make sense of the world orientation of Adolf Hitler.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Journal or Publication Title:	ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
ISSN:	0308-5147
Date:	May 2005
Volume:	34
Number:	2
Number of Pages:	19
Page Range:	pp. 261-279
Identification Number:	10.1080/03085140500054651
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/7060

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