If Auschwitz is Nothing

Of all the big lies that are circulating in our increasingly credulous times, none is larger or more insidious than denial of the Holocaust. Undeterred by attempts to silence her, the distinguished Italian political philosopher Donatella Di Cesare uncovers its sources, traces its global dissemination, and warns against the expanding role it plays in fuelling antisemitic violence and undermining democracy. Martin Jay, University of California With analytical precision and rhetorical brilliance, Donatella Di Cesare simultaneously constructs denialism as an extraordinarily potent ideological-cum-political category and utterly destroys its moral and empirical validity. This intellectual tour de force provides a welcome antidote to the dark conspiracies that are polarizing our time. Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University