1991

JHUP logo thumbnailThe journal moves to the Johns Hopkins University Press. 

In the first volume published by the Press: 

  • Shoah filmmaker Claude Lanzmann's talk on the Holocaust called “The Obscenity of Understanding” is published. 
  • Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, experts on the psychoanalysis of Holocaust survivors, write on trauma and witnessing in the piece “Truth and Testimony: The Process and the Struggle.”
  • Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek contributes “Formal Democracy and Its Discontents.”
  • Kai Erikson, American sociologist and authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events, contributes “Notes on Trauma and Community.”
  • French essayist and philosophical theorist Georges Bataille writes on survivor accounts from Hiroshima: “Concerning the Accounts Given by the Residents of Hiroshima.”

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