Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject - Softcover

Eisenstein, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791458008 ISBN 13: 9780791458006

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2003

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Book by Eisenstein Paul

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Críticas:

"Traumatic Encounters is an engaging and erudite study that will be of much use for scholars from a variety of disciplines." -- H-Net Reviews (H-German)

"Eisenstein's emphatic commitment to a conscientious return-to-self ... protects against a tendency for the thinking, acting, suffering self to be completely effaced by the enormity of collective atrocity." -- College Literature

..".helpfully unsettles some of our most entrenched assumptions." -- Journal of Jewish Studies

"The 'traumatic encounter' from the book's title is not that of the Holocaust, but the one between two seemingly incompatible events: the Holocaust and Hegelian dialectics. The result is simply shattering: both terms undergo a profound transformation. Gone is the image of Hegel as the great idealist reconciliator who washes away all traumatic cuts; gone is the easy 'Holocaust-industry' manipulation of the ultimate crime of the twentieth century. This alone makes the book a must: a forceful redemption of the power of theory." -- Slavoj Zizek

"An exceptionally ambitious and timely intervention into contemporary discussions about the ethics of representation after the Holocaust." -- Wulf Kansteiner, Binghamton University, State University of New York

"Traumatic Encounters offers an innovative (Zizekian/Lacanian) approach to the Holocaust in literature and provides significant insight into an interesting selection of important texts." -- David Brenner, Chair of Jewish Studies, Kent State University

Reseña del editor:

Addresses the difficulty of representing the Holocaust in literature and on film.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0791458008
• ISBN 13: 9780791458006
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248