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History and Memory after Auschwitz /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: LaCapra, Dominick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Note
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. History and Memory: In the Shadow of the Holocaust
  • CHAPTER TWO. Revisiting the Historians' Debate: Mourning and Genocide
  • CHAPTER THREE. Rereading Camus's The Fall after Auschwitz and with Algeria
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Lanzmann's Shoah: "Here There Is No Why"
  • CHAPTER FIVE. 'Twas the Night before Christmas: Art Spiegelman's Maus
  • CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion: Psychoanalysis, Memory, and the Ethical Tum
  • Index