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History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence
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History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence Paperback - 2009

by LaCapra, Dominick

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  • Title History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence
  • Author LaCapra, Dominick
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London
  • Date 2009-04-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0801475155
  • ISBN 9780801475153 / 0801475155
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.26 x 0.56 in (23.47 x 15.90 x 1.42 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Historiography, Intellectual life - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008044158
  • Dewey Decimal Code 907.2

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Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences involving violence and victimization. He asks how historians treat and are simultaneously implicated in the traumatic processes they attempt to represent. In addressing these questions, he also investigates violence's impact on various types of writing and establishes a distinctive role for critical theory in the face of an insufficiently discriminating aesthetic of the sublime (often unreflectively amalgamated with the uncanny).In History and Its Limits, LaCapra inquires into the related phenomenon of a turn to the "postsecular," even the messianic or the miraculous, in recent theoretical discussions of extreme events by such prominent figures as Giorgio Agamben, Eric L. Santner, and Slavoj Zizek. In a related vein, he discusses Martin Heidegger's evocative, if not enchanting, understanding of "The Origin of the Work of Art." LaCapra subjects to critical scrutiny the sometimes internally divided way in which violence has been valorized in sacrificial, regenerative, or redemptive terms by a series of important modern intellectuals on both the far right and the far left, including Georges Sorel, the early Walter Benjamin, Georges Bataille, Frantz Fanon, and Ernst Jnger.Violence and victimization are prominent in the relation between the human and the animal. LaCapra questions prevalent anthropocentrism (evident even in theorists of the "posthuman") and the long-standing quest for a decisive criterion separating or dividing the human from the animal. 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 limits (including limits blocking the recognition that humans are themselves animals).

About the author

Dominick LaCapra is Bryce and Edith Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies and Professor of History and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author or editor of twelve other books published by Cornell, including History in Transit and History and Memory after Auschwitz.