Disciplining the Holocaust / Karyn Ball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ball, Karyn.

Series:

SUNY series, insinuations.

SUNY series, insinuations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

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

Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Berlin, Germany).

Holocaust memorials.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780791477779

0791477770

9781435694545

1435694546

OCLC:

300693334