Disciplining the Holocaust by Karyn Ball
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.-
A Voice from Elsewhere
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Repetition and Subjectivity
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The Unconcept
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A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity
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Perversions of the Market
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The Cinema of the Real
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The Comedy of Philosophy
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Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
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The Aesthetic Clinic
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Postcolonial Lack
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Unworkable
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Signifiers and Acts
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Bound by the City
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Surplus
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Telling Silence
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Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
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Coming Too Late
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Kristeva's Fiction
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Malady and Genius
"Disciplining the Holocaust is an ambitious and thought-provoking study that touches on many uncomfortable questions for scholars in this areaIt will undoubtedly prompt discussion and debate." — H-Net Reviews
"A complex book about a difficult topic." — CHOE
"Disciplining the Holocaust is a brave, multileveled, and important intervention that presages a new type of historical meditation, one in which new ways of framing the unrepresentable are on display. The book is informed by an impressive combination of critical vocabularies, all of which seem needed to address one of the bewitched sites of modernity." — Tom Cohen, author of Ideology and Inscription: "Cultural Studies" after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791475423 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791475425 |
| Title | Disciplining the Holocaust |
| Author | Karyn Ball |
| Series | Suny Series Insinuations: Philosophy Psychoanalysis Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2009-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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