Affective Genealogies - Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the Jewish Question After Auschwitz

Examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a wide range of French poststructuralist works. This book questions whether 'the non-essentializing discourse of postmodernism [can] ever enable a genuine 'working through' to an understanding of the horror of the Holocaust'.

About the author

Elizabeth J. Bellamy is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History.

Summary

Offers a contribution to the reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. This title examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a range of French poststructuralist works. It concludes that French thought "encrypts but does not fully confront the trauma of the Holocaust."

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth J Bellamy, Elizabeth J. Bellamy
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1997
• EAN: 9780803212497
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-1249-7
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 243 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 503 g
• Series: Texts and Contexts; Texts and Contexts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous