History and Memory after Auschwitz
ISBN: 9781501727450
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



The relations between memory and history have recently become a subject of contention, and the implications of that debate are particularly troubling for aesthetic, ethical, and political issues. Dominick LaCapra focuses on the interactions among history, memory, and ethicopolitical concerns...


Dominick LaCapra is Bryce and Edith Bowmar Professor in the Humanities, and Director of the Society for the Humanities, at Cornell University. He is the editor of two books and the author of nine books published by Cornell, including Representing the Holocaust .

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