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TY - JOUR
T1 - "Good nations" and "bad nations"
T2 - critical theory, judgement and the naturalisation of memory
AU - Seymour, David
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - This essay investigates the connections between representations of the Holocaust within public memory and within critical theory. It argues that far from offering a critique of that memory, critical theory unwittingly replicates many of its assumptions. This replication appears through acceptance of the assumed distinction between the “good nations” of Western Europe and the “bad nations” of Eastern Europe; those nations who have been remembered as unwilling collaborators, and those deemed more willing, respectively.
AB - This essay investigates the connections between representations of the Holocaust within public memory and within critical theory. It argues that far from offering a critique of that memory, critical theory unwittingly replicates many of its assumptions. This replication appears through acceptance of the assumed distinction between the “good nations” of Western Europe and the “bad nations” of Eastern Europe; those nations who have been remembered as unwilling collaborators, and those deemed more willing, respectively.
U2 - 10.1007/s11196-011-9227-8
DO - 10.1007/s11196-011-9227-8
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 339
EP - 354
JO - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
JF - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
SN - 0952-8059
IS - 3
ER -