Temptation to Forget Racism, Anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazism

"We are nothing in an absolute sense. We are only what we have been-more exactly, what we remember we were." So begins the latest book by one of Europe's most influential modern sociologists, Franco Ferrarotti. In The Temptation to Forget, Ferrarotti examines how many in the waning years of the 20th century are attempting to "forget" or reinvent history to serve the purposes of ethnic, racial, or religious separation. Ferrarotti focuses on anti-Semitism and its re-emergence among the "Skinheads" of the 1980s to draw parallels to how the Holocaust has been reinterpreted/forgotten, and to analyze the implications of this for relations with other ethnic, racial, and religious minorities. "Ethnic cleansing" may be a new term, but, as Ferrarotti illustrates, it has a long heritage in thought and action. This book will make for provocative reading among professional sociologists and students of contemporary social issues.Ferrarotti, Franco is the author of 'Temptation to Forget Racism, Anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazism', published 1994 under ISBN 9780313294433 and ISBN 0313294437.