The irrational dimesion of the Holocaust and the technological rationalization of the instrumental violence. Marcuse and the Holocaust.

Abstract

The present paper is an attempt of reconstructing and exposing Herbert Marcuse’s perspective on the Holocaust viewed in its economical, ideological and psychological dimensions. The main perspective is organized on the supposition that the social cohesion after the First World War needed to be renewed by directing the aggressiveness and the social tensions against a common enemy. An organized manipulation of the frustrations and accumulations of social tensions on the background of the failure and poverty made possible a social unity of the dominant group, and the Jew was the perfect victim of an instrumental, sacrificial, violence.