Von der Demütigung bis zur Zerstörung des Subjekts

"How can the system of National Socialist concentration camps and the Shoah be understood as a system of de-subjectification? The logic of permanent threats of extermination inscribed in the camps served to exclude the victims from a 'general humanity'. They were robbed of basic freedom of action and control options. In view of the practiced and institutionalized forms of humiliation, it was the Nazis' clear intention to bring about "de-subjectification" among the prisoners. The connection and transition between humiliation and de-subjectification are particularly important. Previous studies have placed a different focus - for example, when Avishai Margalit and Gabriel Motzkin either treat humiliation or Reinhold Aschenberg and Giorgio Agamben primarily speak of the phenomenon of de-subjectification. However, this book argues that in the context of the Shoah, both humiliation and de-subjectification can only be understood in conjunction."--www.mandelbaum.at/buch.php?id=913.