Affective genealogies : psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and the "Jewish question" after Auschwitz

Affective Genealogies is a contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a wide range of French poststructuralist works. Central to Bellamy's study is her questioning of whether "the nonessentializing discourse of postmodernism [can] ever enable a genuine 'working through' to an understanding of the horror of the Holocaust." She concludes that much recent French thought "encrypts but does not fully confront the trauma of the Holocaust." Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-205) and index. 214 pages ; 25 cm