Disciplining the Holocaust

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Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Disciplining Traumatic History: Goldhagen's "Impropriety"	p. 19
Goldhagen's Impropriety
Trauma and the Disciplinary Imaginary
The Aesthetics of Restraint: Peter Eisenman's "Jewish" Solution to Germany's Memorial Question	p. 45
Memorial Culture before and after Reunification: Between Revisionism and Jürgen Habermas's "Western Consensus"
"What have we done ourselves by doing away with the Jews?": The Memorial and Its Interlocutors
Deconstructivist Architecture between Libeskind and Eisenman: Toward a "Jewish" Antimemorial Genre?
"Auschwitz" after Lyotard	p. 95
The Wound of Nihilism
Improper Ends
Expropriating the We
Affective Evidence
Survivor Memory and the Limits of Empathy
"Working through" the Holocaust? Toward a Psychoanalysis of Critical Reflection	p. 149
Libidinal Reflections
Against Catharsis
Sadomasochism and the Disciplinary Imaginary
Unspeakable Differences, Obscene Pleasures: The Holocaust as an Object of Desire	p. 193
The Discipline of Compassion between Testimony and Confession
The Holocaust as a Feminist Object of Desire
Notes	p. 219
Index	p. 287
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