The ironist's cage : memory, trauma, and the construction of history

Abstract
Table of Contents

Unsettling the past : objectivity, irony, and history --
Narrative as enclosure : the contextual histories of H. Stuart Hughes --
Performing history : modernist contextualism in Carl E. Schorske's Fin-de siècle Vienna --
Foucault on discourse and history : a style of delegitimation --
Natural right and the end of history : Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève --
Thin description : Richard Rorty's use of history --
Cultural criticism and political theory : Hayden White's rhetorics of history --
The ironist's cage --
The nostalgic nest at the end of history --
Tradition, memory, and history : on Edward Shils and Yosef Yerushalmi --
Freud's use and abuse of the past --
You must remember this : history, memory, and trauma in Hiroshima mon amour --
Shoah as shivah.