TY  - GEN
T1  - History in transit : experience, identity, critical theory
A1  - LaCapra, Dominick, 1939-
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca, N.Y.
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn700981546
AB  - 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 questions, historicist ones, and issues pertaining to disciplinary and institutional politics. Reacting against the antitheoretical bias of some prominent historians, LaCapra presents an alternative model of historiographical practice-one in which emphases on plurality and hybridity are combined with the concept of historical experience. For LaCapra experience emerges as a category both theoretically determined and anchored in the facticity of the everyday. LaCapra tests the assumptions and implications of the way one approaches the past by looking to psychoanalysis to render more self-aware the relationship between the historian and his or her material. He offers criticisms of assumptions held by practicing historians and theorists, placing the study of history at the center of a larger argument about the role of the contemporary university. Contesting both corporatization and claims that the university is in ruins, LaCapra writes, "It is paradoxical that the demand to make the university conform to an ever-increasing extent to a market or business model seems oblivious to the fact that the American university has probably been the most successful of its type in the world, that students from other countries disproportionately desire to study in it."
OP  - 274
CN  - D16.16 .L32 2004
SN  - 9781501727467
SN  - 150172746X
SN  - 0801488982
SN  - 9780801488986
SN  - 0801442540
SN  - 9780801442544
KW  - History : Psychological aspects.
KW  - History : Philosophy.
KW  - History : Social aspects.
KW  - Personality and history.
KW  - Psychohistory.
KW  - Histoire : Aspect psychologique.
KW  - Histoire : Philosophie.
KW  - Histoire : Aspect social.
KW  - Personnalité et histoire.
KW  - Psychohistoire.
KW  - psychohistory.
KW  - HISTORY : Historiography.
KW  - History : Philosophy
KW  - History : Psychological aspects
KW  - Personality and history
KW  - Psychohistory
KW  - Kritische Theorie
KW  - Identität
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - Geschiedschrijving.
KW  - Subject (filosofie)
KW  - Kritische theorie.
ER  -