Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject

Addresses the difficulty of representing the Holocaust in literature and on film.

Traumatic Encounters argues for an alternative memorial path in Holocaust and cultural studies-one that shows the vital necessity of thinking in a universal way about an event like the Holocaust. Relying on Hegel's notion that the particular is already universal, Eisenstein shows how the encounter with trauma transpires not in the refusal of a universalizing gesture but rather in its wholesale embrace. This emb...