'Exterminate All the Brutes Summary\r'

'Lindqvist has written more than than thirty books of essays, aphorisms, autobiography, documentary prose, travel and reportage.. [4][3] He now and then publishes articles in the Swedish press, musical composition for the cultural supply of the largest Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter, since 1950. [5] He is the recipient of several of Swedens some prestigious literary and journalistic awards. His work is in general non-fiction, including (and often transcending) several genres: essays, documentary prose, travel writing and reportages. 4] He is known for his works on exploitation nations in Africa and the Saharan countries, China, India, Latin America and Australia. In the 1960s, partly inspired by the works of Hermann Hesse, Linqvist worn out(p) two years in China. He became fascinated by the legend of the Tang dynasty painter, Wu Tao Tzu, who, when standing expression at a mural of a tabernacle he had just completed, â€Å"suddenly clapped his hands and the temple gate opened . He went into his work and the gates close behind him. [6] His later works, from the late 1980s, tend to concentre on the subjects of European imperialism, colonialism, racism, genocide and war, analysing the place of these phenomena in Western thought, social history and ideology. These topics are not uncontroversial. In 1992, Lindqvist was embroiled in heated overt debate, when his book Exterminate all the Brutes was attacked for its treatment of the second gear World War and the Holocaust. 4] Opponents accused Lindqvist of reducing the extermination of the Jewish people to a prosecutionion of efficient and social forces, thereby disregarding the impact of national socialist ideology and anti-Semitism and what they viewed as the unique historic specificity of the Holocaust. [4] Some of the harshest attacks were launched by Per Ahlmark, who declared Lindqvist to be a â€Å"Holocaust revisionist”. This prompted a furious response by Lindqvist, who considered it a defam atory smear — at no point had he ever called into question the national socialist responsibility for, or the number of dead in, the Holocaust.Regarding the archetype dispute, Lindqvist retorted that his main argument was correct: the Nazi quest for Lebensraum had at its core been an application of the expansionist and racist principles of imperialism and colonialism, but for the first time utilise against fellow Europeans rather than against the distant and dehumanized peoples of the third gear World. [4] However, he agreed that the long tradition of anti-Semitism in European and Christian thought had given(p) the anti-Jewish campaign of the Nazis a further ideological dimension, and revise later editions of the book to better reflect this. [4]\r\n'