Dominick Lacapra
Biographic Data
| ID | 316319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominick Lacapra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominick |
| FAMILY NAME | Lacapra |
| SIGNATURE | LACAPRA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Understanding Others
To what extent do we and can we understand others – other peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselves, epitomized in the notion of unconscious forces? Can we come to terms with our internalized others in ways that foster mutual understanding and counteract the tendency to scapegoat, project, victimize, and indulge in prejudicial and narcissistic impulses? How do various fields or disciplines address or avoid s…
Precarious Rhetorics
OUR COLLEC TION has come together in the midst of the rise of the global Right.It will likely be received and circulate in a global context wherein this ascendency has been consolidated through an entrenched hard-right populism, marked by xenophobia and racialized social orderings, and characterized by nativist, heteronormative, hypermasculine, and heteropatriarchal leadership styles and structures.Such structures are apparent in the authoritaria…
Understanding Others
To what extent do we and can we understand others-other peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselves, epitomized in the notion of unconscious forces? Can we come to terms with our internalized others in ways that foster mutual understanding and counteract the tendency to scapegoat, project, victimize, and indulge in prejudicial and narcissistic impulses? How do various fields or disciplines address or avoid suc…
What Is History? What Is Literature
Ivan Jablonka seeks something other than a mere combination of history, social science, and literature. He would like history, itself understood as a social science, to be a literature of the real world. He is also interested in literature informed not only by the results but, more important, by the forms of reasoning and inquiry of history and related social sciences (notably anthropology and sociology). Jablonka's own positioning within the Ann…
Representing the Holocaust
Trauma, History, Memory, Identity
Despite the considerable amount of work already devoted to the topic, the nexus of trauma, history, memory, and identity is still of widespread interest, and much remains to be investigated on both empirical and theoretical levels. The ongoing challenge is to approach the topic without opposing history and memory in a binary fashion but instead by inquiring into more complex and challenging relations between them, including the role of trauma and…
O queijo e os vermes
O queijo e os vermes: o cosmo de um historiador do século XX foi originalmente publicado em History & Criticism, de 1985, coletânea de ensaios de Dominick LaCapra. Abertamente polêmico, realiza uma leitura cerrada de um texto clássico da historiografia do século XX, O queijo e os vermes (1976), de Carlo Ginzburg, buscando, por aí, explicitar e problematizar certas tendências, então - e ainda -, predominantes na profissão histórica. O propósito de…
Writing History, Writing Trauma
"Trauma and its often symptomatic aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra provides a broad-ranging, critical inquiry into the problem of trauma, notably with respect to major historical events. In a series of interlocking essays, he explores theoretical and literary-critical attempts to come to terms with trauma as well as the crucial role post-traumatic t…
Communications
To the Editors: Although I was pleased that Eric Ehrenreich, someone familiar with Nazi racial practices, has reviewed my book, The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich (AHR, December 2011, 1587–1588), I am disappointed by several of the questions he raised, which seem less pertinent to my study than to issues he has articulated in his own publications. Ehrenreich suggests that I have “not thoroughly address[ed] the role…
"Historical and Literary Approaches to the "Final Solution
This article discusses together two recent prize-winning works of epic proportions that have received much attention: Saul Friedländer's two-volume historical study Nazi Germany and the Jews and Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), the former of which focuses on victims and the latter on perpetrators of the "Final Solution." I provide a critical analysis of Littell's novel, especially with respect to its seemingly fatali…
History and Its Limits
LaCapra regards this attempt to fix the difference as misguided and potentially dangerous because it renders insufficiently problematic the manner in which humans treat other animals and interact with the environment.In raising the issue of desirable transformations in modernity, History and Its Limits examines the legitimacy of normative limits necessary for life in common and explores the disconcerting role of transgressive initiatives beyond l…
Historia y memoria después de Auschwitz
History in Transit
History in Transit comprises Dominick LaCapra's explorations of relationships he believes have been insufficiently theorized: between experience and identity, between history and various theories of subjectivity, between extreme events and their representation, between institutional structures and the kinds of knowledge produced within them. Taken together, these discussions form a dialogical encounter, positing the links among epistemological qu…
The Subject of Violence
1Cornell University The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding (Feminist Constructions) Bat-AmiBar On Lanham, MD Rowman & Littlefield 2002 224 cloth $ 74.00 Paperback $ 26.95
Tropisms of Intellectual History
One incentive in my work is to explore complex issues and ideas with an intricacy that aspires to lucidity but resists ready summary or codification. Intellectual history in this sense not only provides understanding through contextualization but also examines how certain artefacts, processes and signifying practices pose critical challenges to their contexts of production, circulation and reception. Such artefacts, processes and practices also d…
‘Trauma, Absence, Loss’
Writing history, writing trauma
Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes… Well, Maybe
Trauma, Absence, Loss
History and Memory after Auschwitz
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 as they emerge in the aftermath of the Shoah. Particularly notable are his analyses of Albert Camus's novella The Fall , Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah , and A…
The University in Ruins
Equivocations of Autonomous Art
Revisiting the Historians' Debate
Reviewed by: The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding (Feminist Constructions) Dominick LaCapra The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding (Feminist Constructions), Bat-Ami Bar On (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), 224 pp., cloth $74.00, pbk. $26.95. Inquiring critically into violence from a feminist perspective, The Subject of Violence has broad philosophical and theoretical ambitions. Bat-Ami Bar O…
Trauma and Literary Theory
tW~ * ith the publication of three important new books on the psychoanalytic concept of trauma as it intersects with literature, literary theory, historiography, and contemporary culture, it is worth asking why, at this moment, trauma should attract such attention and become a pivotal subject connecting so many disciplines.1 Of course, looking at contemporary American culture and at the history of this
Lanzmann's 'Shoah
Trauma, Absence, Loss
Modern European intellectual history
History and Its Limits
LaCapra regards this attempt to fix the difference as misguided and potentially dangerous because it renders insufficiently problematic the manner in which humans treat other animals and interact with the environment.In raising the issue of desirable transformations in modernity, History and Its Limits examines the legitimacy of normative limits necessary for life in common and explores the disconcerting role of transgressive initiatives beyond l…
Emile Durkheim--Sociologist and Philosopher
Lanzmann's 'Shoah
The University in Ruins
Rethinking Intellectual History and Reading Texts
Over the last decade, intellectual historians have increasingly felt that their field is undergoing a crisis significant enough to reopen the question of the field's nature and objectives. Whatever its presumed causes (for example, the rapid rise of social history), one beneficial effect of a sense of crisis is the pressure it places upon practitioners of a field to be more articulate about what they are doing and why they are doing it. In respon…
Trauma and Literary Theory
tW~ * ith the publication of three important new books on the psychoanalytic concept of trauma as it intersects with literature, literary theory, historiography, and contemporary culture, it is worth asking why, at this moment, trauma should attract such attention and become a pivotal subject connecting so many disciplines.1 Of course, looking at contemporary American culture and at the history of this
Culture and Ideology
The culture concept to which I adhere has neither multiple referents nor, so far as I can see, any unusual ambiguity; it denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life. Clifford Geertz, Religion as a Cultural System
Trauma, History, Memory, Identity
Despite the considerable amount of work already devoted to the topic, the nexus of trauma, history, memory, and identity is still of widespread interest, and much remains to be investigated on both empirical and theoretical levels. The ongoing challenge is to approach the topic without opposing history and memory in a binary fashion but instead by inquiring into more complex and challenging relations between them, including the role of trauma and…
Chartier, Darnton, and the Great Symbol Massacre
History and Psychoanalysis
Is Everyone a Mentalite Case? Transference and the "Culture" Concept
There is at least one spot in every dream at which it is unplumbable -a navel, as it were, that is its point of contact with the unknown . . . This is the dream's navel, the spot [or place: Stellel where it reaches down into [or straddles: aufsitzt -with no implication that it touches bottom] the unknown. The dream-thoughts to which we are led by interpretation cannot, from the nature of things, have any definite endings [or are interminable: ohn…
Habermas and the Grounding of Critical Theory
Representations and descriptions are never independent of standards. And the choice of these standards is based on attitudes that require critical consideration by means of arguments, because they cannot be either logically deduced or empirically demonstrated. Fundamental methodological decisions, for example such basic distinctions as those between categorial and noncategorial being, between analytic and synthetic statements, or between descript…
"Historical and Literary Approaches to the "Final Solution
This article discusses together two recent prize-winning works of epic proportions that have received much attention: Saul Friedländer's two-volume historical study Nazi Germany and the Jews and Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), the former of which focuses on victims and the latter on perpetrators of the "Final Solution." I provide a critical analysis of Littell's novel, especially with respect to its seemingly fatali…
Tropisms of Intellectual History
One incentive in my work is to explore complex issues and ideas with an intricacy that aspires to lucidity but resists ready summary or codification. Intellectual history in this sense not only provides understanding through contextualization but also examines how certain artefacts, processes and signifying practices pose critical challenges to their contexts of production, circulation and reception. Such artefacts, processes and practices also d…
Michel Foucault
In preparing this edition, Dreyfus and Rabinow added not only the interview with Foucalt - On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress - but also a new chapter on the books Foucalt was working on at the time: two more planned volumes of The History of Sexuality and a third book, Le Souci de soi, that was to analyze the great attention paid by the ancient world to the care of the self. Foucault himself wrote at the time that this b…
Understanding Others
To what extent do we and can we understand others-other peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselves, epitomized in the notion of unconscious forces? Can we come to terms with our internalized others in ways that foster mutual understanding and counteract the tendency to scapegoat, project, victimize, and indulge in prejudicial and narcissistic impulses? How do various fields or disciplines address or avoid suc…
Equivocations of Autonomous Art
History and Criticism
In History and Criticism, Dominick LaCapra examines the complex relationship between history and criticism, exploring how historical narratives are shaped by rhetorical strategies, and how critical approaches can illuminate the past. He argues for a nuanced understanding of historical representation, acknowledging its constructed nature while maintaining a commitment to historical accuracy. LaCapra draws on diverse intellectual traditions, includ…
The Content of the Form
Hayden White probes notion of authority in art and literature and examines problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption-in different historical epochs. In end, he suggests, only meaning that history can have is kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in the content of form, in way our narrative capacities transform present into a fulfil…
Rethinking the Linguistic Turn
History and Genre
The Political Unconscious. Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
be obvious that no work in the area of narrative analysis can afford to ignore the fundamental contributions of Northrop Frye, the codifica tion by A. J. Greimas of the whole Formalist and semiotic traditions, the heritage of a certain Christian hermeneutics, and above all, the indispensable explorations by Freud of the logic of dreams, and by Claude Levi-Strauss of the logic of "primitive" storytelling and pensee sauvage, not to speak of the fla…
Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim--Sociologist and Philosopher
Emile Durkheim
Prophets and Patrons
Book Reviews in novels to reflect sociological and historical happenings and influences, and to examine it closely, is not only to discover this but also to scrutinize fundamental factors, such as the writers themselves and the role of the novel in general.Both organic and psychological illness are encountered and the four scholarly essays discussing them are of excellent quality.It is, however, difficult to get at the discussions of the diseases…
Durkheim
Habermas and the Grounding of Critical Theory
Representations and descriptions are never independent of standards. And the choice of these standards is based on attitudes that require critical consideration by means of arguments, because they cannot be either logically deduced or empirically demonstrated. Fundamental methodological decisions, for example such basic distinctions as those between categorial and noncategorial being, between analytic and synthetic statements, or between descript…
Tropics of Discourse
Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summ…
Reading Exemplars
Who Rules Metaphor
A Preface to Sartre
Rethinking Intellectual History and Reading Texts
Over the last decade, intellectual historians have increasingly felt that their field is undergoing a crisis significant enough to reopen the question of the field's nature and objectives. Whatever its presumed causes (for example, the rapid rise of social history), one beneficial effect of a sense of crisis is the pressure it places upon practitioners of a field to be more articulate about what they are doing and why they are doing it. In respon…
Theater and Revolution
Modern European intellectual history
"Madame Bovary" on Trial
Jean-Paul Sartre--Philosophy in the World. Ronald Aronson
The Political Unconscious. Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
be obvious that no work in the area of narrative analysis can afford to ignore the fundamental contributions of Northrop Frye, the codifica tion by A. J. Greimas of the whole Formalist and semiotic traditions, the heritage of a certain Christian hermeneutics, and above all, the indispensable explorations by Freud of the logic of dreams, and by Claude Levi-Strauss of the logic of "primitive" storytelling and pensee sauvage, not to speak of the fla…
Michel Foucault
In preparing this edition, Dreyfus and Rabinow added not only the interview with Foucalt - On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress - but also a new chapter on the books Foucalt was working on at the time: two more planned volumes of The History of Sexuality and a third book, Le Souci de soi, that was to analyze the great attention paid by the ancient world to the care of the self. Foucault himself wrote at the time that this b…
Sartre and Flaubert
Is Everyone a Mentalite Case? Transference and the "Culture" Concept
There is at least one spot in every dream at which it is unplumbable -a navel, as it were, that is its point of contact with the unknown . . . This is the dream's navel, the spot [or place: Stellel where it reaches down into [or straddles: aufsitzt -with no implication that it touches bottom] the unknown. The dream-thoughts to which we are led by interpretation cannot, from the nature of things, have any definite endings [or are interminable: ohn…
Ideology and Critique in Dickens's Bleak House
Research Article| April 01 1984 Ideology and Critique in Dickens's Bleak House Dominick LaCapra Dominick LaCapra Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 6: 116–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928541 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation…
Time and Narrative
The Hypocrisy of Justice in the Belle Epoque . Benjamin F. Martin
Disfiguring History
Singed Phoenix and Gift of Tongues
History and Criticism
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