{"product_id":"representing-the-holocaust-history-theory-trauma-9780801481871","title":"Representing the Holocaust: History  Theory  Trauma","description":"\u003cp\u003eDefying comprehension  the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our interpretation of the Holocaust has been the center of bitter controversies  from debates over Paul de Mans collaborationist journalism and Martin Heideggers Nazi past to attempts by some historians to downplay the Holocausts significance. A major voice in current historiographical discussions  Dominick LaCapra brings a new clarity to these issues as he examines the intersections between historical events and the theory through which we struggle to understand them.In a series of essaysthree published here for the first timeLaCapra explores the problems faced by historians  critics  and thinkers who attempt to grasp the Holocaust. He considers the role of canon formation and the dynamic of revisionist historiography  as well as critically analyzing responses to the discovery of de Mans wartime writings. He also discusses Heideggers involvement with National Socialism  and he sheds light on postmodernist obsessions with such concepts as loss  agora  dispossession  deferred meaning  and the sublime. Throughout  LaCapra demonstrates that psychoanalysis is not merely a psychology of the individual but that its concepts have sociocultural dimensions and can help us perceive the relationship between the present and the past. Many of our efforts to comprehend the Holocaust  he shows  continue to suffer from the traumatizing effects of its events and require a \"working through\" of that trauma if we are to gain a more profound understanding of the meaning of the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789753507893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801481872","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801481871.jpg?v=1784696634","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/representing-the-holocaust-history-theory-trauma-9780801481871","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}