Traumatic encounters : Holocaust representation and the Hegelian subject / Paul Eisenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenstein, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Schindler's list (Motion picture).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography--Philosophy.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traumatic Encounters argues for an alternative memorial path in Holocaust and cultural studies—one that shows the vital necessity of thinking in a universal way about an event like the Holocaust. Relying on Hegel's notion that the particular is already universal, Eisenstein shows how the encounter with trauma transpires not in the refusal of a universalizing gesture but rather in its wholesale embrace. This embrace results in a recognition involving the trauma that conditions the possibility of history in the first place—a structural trauma immune to historicization that Hegel and psychoanalysis place at the heart of subjectivity and community. This encounter with structural trauma is at the center of four titles that Eisenstein examines: Spielberg's Schindler's List, D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel, Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, and David Grossman's See Under: Love

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Holocaust Memory and Hegel

Obsession and the Meaning of Jewish Rescue

Hysteria as Deferral

Leverkühn as Witness

History as/and Paranoia

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-229) and index.

ISBN:

9780791486382

0791486389

9781417536139

1417536136

OCLC:

461429216