Ball Disciplining the Holocaust

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7777-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ball, Karyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Disciplining Traumatic History: Goldhagen’s “Impropriety
Goldhagen’s Impropriety • Trauma and the Disciplinary Imaginary 2. The Aesthetics of Restraint: Peter Eisenman’s “Jewish” Solution to Germany’s Memorial Question
Memorial Culture before and after Reunification: Between Revisionism and Jürgen Habermas’s “Western Consensus” • “What have we done to ourselves by doing away with the Jews?”: The Memorial and Its Interlocutors • Deconstructivist Architecture between Libeskind and Eisenman: Toward a “Jewish” Antimemorial Genre? 3. “Auschwitz” after Lyotard
The Wound of Nihilism • Improper Ends • Expropriating the We • Affective Evidence • Survivor Memory and the Limits of Empathy 4. “Working through” the Holocaust? Toward a Psychoanalysis of Critical Reflection
Libidinal Reflections • Against Catharsis • Sadomasochism and the Disciplinary Imaginary 5. Unspeakable Differences, Obscene Pleasures: The Holocaust as an Object of Desire
The Discipline of Compassion between Testimony and Confession • The Holocaust as a Feminist Object of Desire Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karyn Ball is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta and the editor of Traumatizing Theory: The Cultural Politics of Affect In and Beyond Psychoanalysis.