History in Transit comprises Dominick LaCapra's explorations of
relationships he believes have been insufficiently theorized:
between experience and identity, between history and various
theories of subjectivity, between extreme events and their
representation, between institutional structures and the kinds of
knowledge produced within them. Taken together, these discussions
form a dialogical encounter, positing the links among
epistemological questions, historicist ones, and issues pertaining
to disciplinary and institutional politics.
Reacting against the antitheoretical bias of some prominent
historians, LaCapra presents an alternative model of
historiographical practice one in which emphases on plurality and
hybridity are combined with the concept of historical experience.
For LaCapra experience emerges as a category both theoretically
determined and anchored in the facticity of the everyday. LaCapra
tests the assumptions and implications of the way one approaches
the past by looking to psychoanalysis to render more self-aware the
relationship between the historian and his or her material. He
offers criticisms of assumptions held by practicing historians and
theorists, placing the study of history at the center of a larger
argument about the role of the contemporary university.
Contesting both corporatization and claims that the university
is in ruins, LaCapra writes, "It is paradoxical that the demand to
make the university conform to an ever-increasing extent to a
market or business model seems oblivious to the fact that the
American university has probably been the most successful of its
type in the world, that students from other countries
disproportionately desire to study in it.""
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