Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.
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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 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.
"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
"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
About the Author
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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Undisciplined reflection,
This review is from: Disciplining the Holocaust (Suny Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature) (Hardcover)
Karyn Ball elevates the discussion of the Holocaust to a new level of critical reflection. Her mind is as sharp as her eye is quick. She shows that the current talk about the epistemology and ontology of the Holocaust is less about what it was, what happened, and how do we grasp its content or substance than what constitutes the "proper" attitudes and feelings that different groups are expected to bring to their contemplation of the new kind of victimage which the Holocaust made manifest. A deep and brilliant book. Hayden White
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Disciplining the Holocaust, The Aesthetics of Restraint, Final Solution, Third Reich, West German, The Differend, Negative Dialectics, Obscene Pleasures, Unspeakable Differences, Disciplining Traumatic History, Jewish Museum, Neue Wache, National Socialist, Murdered Jews of Europe, The Ends of Man, Berlin Wall, Hitler's Willing Executioners, Federal Republic, World War, Plato's Pharmacy, Jean-François Lyotard, Walter Benjamin, Chancellor Kohl, New York, The History of Sexuality Browse Sample Pages:
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police battalion, disciplinary imaginary, anonymous mass murder, critical remembrance, internalized surveillance, traumatic fixation, narrative fetishism, structural trauma, posttraumatic anxiety, feminist gaze, image prohibition, negative sublime, negative science, compulsive repetition, traumatic history, moral masochism, speculative discourse, speculative logic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Disciplining the Holocaust, The Aesthetics of Restraint, Final Solution, Third Reich, West German, The Differend, Negative Dialectics, Obscene Pleasures, Unspeakable Differences, Disciplining Traumatic History, Jewish Museum, Neue Wache, National Socialist, Murdered Jews of Europe, The Ends of Man, Berlin Wall, Hitler's Willing Executioners, Federal Republic, World War, Plato's Pharmacy, Jean-François Lyotard, Walter Benjamin, Chancellor Kohl, New York, The History of Sexuality Browse Sample Pages:
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