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Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 262-304

  Lacapra, Dominick ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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References (8)

1. Lucy Dawidowicz, ed., A Holocaust Reader (West Orange, N.J.: Behrman House, 1976), 132-33.
2. See especially The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. George Van Den Abbeele (1983; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988).
3. "The Force of Law: The 'Mystical' Foundation of Authority," Cardozo Law Review 11 (1990): 920-1045, and my response to it in the same volume; The Gift of Death, trans. David Wells (1992; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
4. See Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwab (1922, 1934; Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985).
5. See Lawrence Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), and my discussion of the book in Representing the Holocaust, 194-200.
6. See Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History (New York: Routledge, 1992). I comment extensively on Felman's contributions to this book in the three works mentioned in footnote 1.
7. For a careful, thought-provoking discussion of related issues, see Etienne Balibar, Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy before and after Marx, trans. James Swenson (New York: Routledge, 1994), esp. part 3.
8. See also Slavoj Zizek, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? (London: Verso, 2001), chap. 2.