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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959135703321

Autore

Ball Karyn

Titolo

Disciplining the Holocaust / / Karyn Ball

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : SUNY Press, c2008

ISBN

9780791477779

0791477770

9781435694545

1435694546

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, insinuations

Disciplina

940.53/18072

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany - Influence

Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Berlin, Germany)

Holocaust memorials

Psychoanalysis and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Disciplining traumatic history : Goldhagen's "impropriety" -- The aesthetics of restraint : Peter Eisenman's "Jewish" solution to Germany's memorial question -- "Auschwitz" after Lyotard -- "Working through" the Holocaust? : toward a psychoanalysis of critical reflection -- Unspeakable differences, obscene pleasures : the Holocaust as an object of desire.

Sommario/riassunto

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.