Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz

There are many considerations about the second world war and the crimes committed by the Nazis against the Jews, ranging from historical disciplines to cinema. But there are never enough to understand the excesses to which humanity can itself against. The French philosopher George Didi-Huberman performs all hermeneutical reflection based on four-densefocadas photographs with a poor frame-to reflect on the suffering of the people who were forced to live in a concentration camp and how some groups were forced to bring their own people to the cremation ovens. In this story, Huberman points about the role of so-called Sonderkommando. This is an example of how the photographic image can be used to generate philosophical reflections.

I would not rush out to buy this, particularly given the price of the hard-cover. Didi-Huberman is writing in a foreign context (for the American scholar), in that it's more of a public-intellectual debate and less of a strictly academic work. Thus, the text meanders, repeats itself, engages in strange side-polemics with Lanzmann's Les Temps Modernes ... not a terribly memorable work for me, although Didi-Huberman is, to my mind, unfairly assailed by Lanzmann's supporters/flunkies at LTM--his thoughts are interesting and insightful.

The endless critique of other's responses to the exhibition of these photos. Although quite interesting the responses become grating after awhile...