Description
Book SynopsisIn a series of essays—three published here for the first time—LaCapra explores the problems faced by historians, critics, and thinkers who attempt to grasp the Holocaust.
Trade ReviewRepresenting the Holocaust is a probing analysis of the relations between historiographical, personal, and cultural identity formation in the aftermath of the historical trauma of the Holocaust.
-- John E. Toews * American Historical Review *
Dominick LaCapra may be the most original intellectual historian writing in America today. LaCapra begins, in this book, to provide a means by which one can critically examine the engagement of the historian/critic with his or her object of study.
-- Sander L. Gilman * Modern Philology *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Canons, Texts, and Contexts
2. Reflections on the Historians' Debate
3. Historicizing the Holocaust
4. Paul de Man as Object of Transference
5. Heidegger's Nazi Tum
6. The Return of the Historically Repressed
Conclusion: Acting-Out and Working-Through
