History and its limits
Subtitle: human, animal, violence
By: Dominick LaCapra.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780801447860; 9780801475153
Subjects: Historiography; Intellectual life -- History; Human beings -- Animal nature; Animals (Philosophy); Violence -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Articulating intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory; title: Vicissitudes of practice and theory; title: "Traumatropisms" : from trauma via witnessing to the sublime?; title: Toward a critique of violence; title: Heidegger, violence, and the origin of the work of art; title: Reopening the question of the human and the animal; title: Tropisms of intellectual history.