Dominick LaCapra

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Dominick LaCapra (* 1939 ) is an American historian.

Life

LaCapra graduated from Cornell University and received her PhD from Harvard University . From 1969 he taught history at Cornell University. He works on the theory of history and integrates findings from comparative literature , psychoanalysis and post-structuralism into his questions . In 2002 he took the summer courses of the "School of Criticism and Theory" founded by Murray Krieger at Cornell University.

LaCapra was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.

Fonts

  • Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Philosopher . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972 (reissued 2001)
  • A Preface to Sartre . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978
  • Madame Bovary on Trial . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982
  • Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983
  • with Steven L Kaplan (ed.): Modern European intellectual history: reappraisals and new perspectives . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982
    • Thinking history: redefinitions and perspectives of modern European intellectual history. Translation by Hans Günter Holl. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1988
  • History & Criticism . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985
    • History and criticism . Authorized translation by Ludwig Hirt. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch, 1987
  • History, Politics, and the Novel . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987
  • Soundings in Critical Theory . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989
  • Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994
  • 1986: The Historians' Debate ( Historikerstreit ) takes place over the status and representation of the Nazi period, and more specifically of the Holocaust, in Germany's past . In: Sander L. Gilman , Jack Zipes (Ed.): Yale companion to Jewish writing and thought in German culture 1096-1996. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997, pp. 812-819
  • History and Memory after Auschwitz . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998
  • “Acting out” and “working through” the trauma , interview, from the English by Irmgard Hölscher, in: David Bankier (Ed.): Questions about the Holocaust: Interviews with prominent researchers and thinkers . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006, pp. 188–216
  • History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000
  • Writing History, Writing Trauma . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001
  • History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004
  • History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009
  • History, Literature, Critical Theory . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Monroe: Writing and revising the disciplines . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, biography on p. 194


personal data
SURNAME LaCapra, Dominick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1939