"What Davis' book offers is the prospect of transforming our way of thinking, feeling, and all associated cultural practices. The attack that Davis mounts on the practices of history that have dominated the last 400 hundred years of Western culture is more insidious and promising, more radical and more dangerous than anything I, personally, have so far read on this subject."

♦ Chris McMahon, Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness

"Deracination represents a major achievement in the philosophy of history and in philosophy as such. Davis is perhaps the first thinker to recognize fully the priority that one must give to aesthetic experience if one is to engage authentically the traumatic dimension of the historical event. These aspects of the work represent major — even revolutionary — contributions to contemporary critical theory. This is a work that cannot be ignored and that should be at this moment changing the very way that we relate to history."

♦ Todd McGowan, Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society

"Its scope and depth require careful reading for assimilation of its many insights and explications of current issues in philosophy, criticism, psychoanalysis, and literature. I commend your effort to move Hiroshima back into the center of contemporary critical — and existential — concerns and I envy the sureness of your touch in trying to depose conceptual thinking in favor of the (dialetical) image. I expect to be spending much of the remaining summer wrestling with this book."

♦ Hayden White, letter to the author