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LaCapra is one of the best and most original minds in intellectual history and his ability to stay at the forefront of the humanities and historical theory is simply quite amazing. LaCapra is a master at assembling a series of essays into a cohesive whole to shape a work whose parts could be read individually but that taken together offer something more. -- Ethan Kleinberg, Professor of History and Letters, Director of the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University Dominick LaCapra's latest manuscript represents a synthesis of his thinking on a wide variety of topics, from trauma to anthropocentrism. Most important, he develops the Freudian concept of `working through' in a far more sustained manner than he has previously, demonstrating how a critical theory based on a self-conscious, rigorous assessment of the `transferential relation' in which all subjects are mutually implicated disrupts seemingly self-sufficient and linear narratives. -- Carolyn Dean, Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French, Yale University

LaCapra is one of the best and most original minds in intellectual history and his ability to stay at the forefront of the humanities and historical theory is simply quite amazing. LaCapra is a master at assembling a series of essays into a cohesive whole to shape a work whose parts could be read individually but that taken together offer something more. --Ethan Kleinberg, Professor of History and Letters, Director of the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University Dominick LaCapra's latest manuscript represents a synthesis of his thinking on a wide variety of topics, from trauma to anthropocentrism. Most important, he develops the Freudian concept of 'working through' in a far more sustained manner than he has previously, demonstrating how a critical theory based on a self-conscious, rigorous assessment of the 'transferential relation' in which all subjects are mutually implicated disrupts seemingly self-sufficient and linear narratives. --Carolyn Dean, Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French, Yale University

Dominick LaCapra's latest manuscript represents a synthesis of his thinking on a wide variety of topics, from trauma to anthropocentrism. Most important, he develops the Freudian concept of `working through' in a far more sustained manner than he has previously, demonstrating how a critical theory based on a self-conscious, rigorous assessment of the `transferential relation' in which all subjects are mutually implicated disrupts seemingly self-sufficient and linear narratives. -- Carolyn Dean, Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French, Yale University LaCapra is one of the best and most original minds in intellectual history and his ability to stay at the forefront of the humanities and historical theory is simply quite amazing. LaCapra is a master at assembling a series of essays into a cohesive whole to shape a work whose parts could be read individually but that taken together offer something more. -- Ethan Kleinberg, Professor of History and Letters, Director of the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University

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Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Literature and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of many books, including History, Literature, Critical Theory; History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.

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