| Disciplining the Holocaust Contributor(s): Ball, Karyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791475417 ISBN-13: 9780791475416 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 2007044486 |
| Series: SUNY Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |