Professor David Patterson Holds Two Events!

Professor David Patterson's two talks on the Holocaust were both very well attended, about fifty people at each lecture, and, if the question period afterward is any indication, very well received.  The audience was made up of students, professors and local community people.  On Monday, October 22, Patterson spoke about "The Singularity of the Holocaust."  Though the Holocaust is indeed "singular," because the Nazi's were attempting the metaphysical task of eliminating morality, in the person of the Jews and Judaism, from the face of the earth, it is for that very reason of universal significance, showing the darkest side of all forms of anti-humanism.  On Tuesday, October 23, Patterson shed light on the topic of his latest book, namely, the impossibility of representing - in literature or film - the negative essence, the murderous intent, of the Holocaust in its anti-human ferocity.