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History and Memory after Auschwitz
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History and Memory after Auschwitz Paperback - 1998

by Dominick LaCapra

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Cornell University Press, 1998. Book. New. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff color wraps. New/as issued. 1st ptg..
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  • Title History and Memory after Auschwitz
  • Author Dominick LaCapra
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition New
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 055301
  • ISBN 9780801484964 / 0801484960
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 6.02 x 0.56 in (23.27 x 15.29 x 1.42 cm)
  • Reading level 1550
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-41845
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.531

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From the publisher

The relations between memory and history have recently become a subject of contention, and the implications of that debate are particularly troubling for aesthetic, ethical, and political issues. Dominick LaCapra focuses on the interactions among history, memory, and ethicopolitical concerns as they emerge in the aftermath of the Shoah. Particularly notable are his analyses of Albert Camus's novella The Fall, Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah, and Art Spiegelman's "comic book" Maus. LaCapra also considers the Historians' Debate in the aftermath of German reunification and the role of psychoanalysis in historical understanding and critical theory. In six essays, LaCapra addresses a series of related questions. Are there experiences whose traumatic nature blocks understanding and disrupts memory while producing belated effects that have an impact on attempts to address the past? Do some events present moral and representational issues even for groups or individuals not directly involved in them? Do those more directly involved have special responsibilities to the past and the way it is remembered in the present? Can or should historiography define itself in a purely scholarly and professional way that distances it from public memory and its ethical implications? Does art itself have a special responsibility with respect to traumatic events that remain invested with value and emotion?

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About the author

Dominick LaCapra is Bryce and Edith Bowmar Professor in the Humanities, and Director of the Society for the Humanities, at Cornell University. He is the editor of two books and the author of nine books published by Cornell, including Representing the Holocaust.

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