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UNINA9910959135703321 |
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Autore |
Ball Karyn |
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Titolo |
Disciplining the Holocaust / / Karyn Ball |
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Albany, : SUNY Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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9780791477779 |
0791477770 |
9781435694545 |
1435694546 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (323 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series, insinuations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany - Influence |
Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Berlin, Germany) |
Holocaust memorials |
Psychoanalysis and culture |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-285) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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