How to name the Holocaust, between, muteness, silence and outcry?

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53981/destrocos.v7i1.64287

Keywords:

fascism, ashes, responsibility, myth, cry

Abstract

This essay was delivered during the conference ‘What was the Holocaust? A transdisciplinary approach?’ on the panel The Holocaust as seen by Germans in Lisbon in January 2016 and was significantly reworked after reading the essay Changing the name: hiltlerisms, disseminations, and the jewish Schuldfrage by Shajara Néehilan Bensusan, published in Vol. 1, No. 1 (2026) of the journal (Des)troços. This is not a criticism, but rather a comment, in the sense that the subject in question, the Holocaust, affects our present day on different ontological and existential levels, consciously and unconsciously perpetuated against a multiplicity of beings and phenomena. It could even be said that the Holocaust is one of the central expressions of our time, the Anthropocene.

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Author Biography

  • Dirk Michael Hennrich, University of São Paulo

    Dirk Michael Hennrich é filósofo e co-fundador da série internacional Antropocênica. A sua produção científica concentra-se principalmente no âmbito da Filosofia da Paisagem, da Filosofia Animal e dos Estudos do Antropoceno. Ultimas publicações no Journal Topoi da Springer Nature (nov. 2025) e na Revista PIXO v.8 n.29 (2024).

References

KLEMPERER, Victor. LTI: a linguagem do Terceiro Reich. Tradução, apresentação e notas de Miriam Bettina Paulina Oelsner. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 2009.

ROSENZWEIG, Franz. Der Mensch und sein Werk: gesammelte Schriften. Bd. 1: Briefe und Tagebücher. Ed. Rachel Rosenzweig e Edith Rosenzweig-Scheinmann, em colaboração com Bernhard Casper. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979.

Published

2026-04-06

How to Cite

HENNRICH, Dirk Michael. How to name the Holocaust, between, muteness, silence and outcry?. (Des)troços: revista de pensamento radical, Belo Horizonte, v. 7, n. 1, p. e64287, 2026. DOI: 10.53981/destrocos.v7i1.64287. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/article/view/64287. Acesso em: 15 apr. 2026.

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