Disciplining the Holocaust /:

Disciplining the Holocaust examines critics' efforts to defend a rigorous and morally appropriate image of the Holocaust. Rather than limiting herself to polemics about the "proper" approach to traumatic history, Karyn Ball explores recent trends in intellectual history that govern a...

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1. Verfasser: Ball, Karyn
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : SUNY Press, ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series, insinuations.
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Zusammenfassung:Disciplining the Holocaust examines critics' efforts to defend a rigorous and morally appropriate image of the Holocaust. Rather than limiting herself to polemics about the "proper" approach to traumatic history, Karyn Ball explores recent trends in intellectual history that govern a contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust. She examines the scholarly reception of Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, the debates culminating in Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Lyotard's response to negations of testimony about the gas chambers, psychoanalytically informed frameworks for the critical study of traumatic history, and a conference on feminist approaches to the Holocaust and genocide. Ball's book bridges the gap between psychoanalysis and Foucault's understanding of disciplinary power in order to highlight the social implications of traumatic history.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-285) and index.
ISBN:9781435694545
1435694546
0791477770
9780791477779