The heartbreaking story traces the history of significant neglect of genocide by their contemporaries, developed for this one interesting typology of those intellectuals who allow (or not) think about the symbolism of Auschwitz after Auschwitz. Auschwitz confronts us with a tear of history that continues to widen, dialectically, as over time this away from us. Today central obsessively in our memory of the twentieth century, the Jewish genocide was almost completely ignored by the Western culture as it is perpetrated. Front-blindness of the Reflections on the Jewish question in Sartre's example is certainly more paradoxical and more surprisingly, are the German-Jewish exiles and survivors of the Nazi slaughter who, between forty and sixty, try to think Auschwitz. This book is dedicdo. Explore the intellectual landscape that goes from Paris to New York, a Europe in ruins still an America become a land of exile. It focuses on the philosophy (Adorno, Anders) and political thought (Arendt), without excluding certain literary forms as (Levy, Amery) or even poetry (Celan). Simultaneously epistomológica ethics and the reflection of these intellectuals Auschwitz explores the relationship of violence in the twentieth century, analyzes the complicity unprecedented and terrifying death camps established between modernity and barbarism, between technical rationality and mass extermination, and designates Finally, the questions raised by this genocide, and the wounds inflicted on the culture. These are some of the issues that occupy the center of current debate. Traverso, Italian historian, does not intend to make a profession of faith objectivist. Rather seeks to engage in the course of history. His work revolves around a constant obsession, namely that the thread that runs through the history of our century is stained by the predominance of barbarism. Barbarism is then placed over civilization. In other words, the notion of progress is tragically assume once and for all its other face of Janus: barbarism and the civilizing process establishing fact, for there is no real linear evolution of humanity, but as waste a factory civilization in its progress generates an infinite sequence of events barbarians, while acts of civilization, also mark the human memory. Works of general interest to all readers interested in the events of recent history for teachers and students of history as well as for researchers.