History and its limits : human, animal, violence /

History and its limits : human, animal, violence /

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Author / Creator:	LaCapra, Dominick, 1939-
Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Description:	ix, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Historiography. Intellectual life -- History. Human beings -- Animal nature. Animals (Philosophy) Violence -- Philosophy. Animals (Philosophy) Historiography. Human beings -- Animal nature. Intellectual life. Violence -- Philosophy. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7706951

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ISBN:	9780801447860 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801447860 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801475153 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801475155 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Articulating Intellectual History, cultural History, and Critical Theory
2. Vicissitudes of Practice and Theory
3. "Traumatropisms": From Trauma via Witnessing to the Sublime?
4. Towaard a Critique of Violence
5. Heidegger, Violence, and the Origin of the work of Art
6. Reopening the question of the Human and the Animal
7. Tropisms of Intellectual History
Index