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.

"It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this work for the intellectual historian, philosopher, or literary theorist—in short for anyone concerned with texts."—Larry Shiner, Sangamon State University, Clio, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1984

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.

"It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this work for the intellectual historian, philosopher, or literary theorist—in short for anyone concerned with texts."—Larry Shiner, Sangamon State University, Clio, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1984

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.

"It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this work for the intellectual historian, philosopher, or literary theorist—in short for anyone concerned with texts."—Larry Shiner, Sangamon State University, Clio, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1984