Terror and the sublime in art and critical theory from Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 /

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Main Author: Ray, Gene, 1963-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Series:Studies in European culture and history.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the hit
  • Ch. 1. Reading the Lisbon earthquake : Adorno, Lyotard, and the contemporary sublime
  • Ch. 2. Joseph Beuys and the "after-Auschwitz" sublime
  • Ch. 3. Ground Zero : Hiroshima haunts "9/11"
  • Ch. 4. Mirroring evil : Auschwitz, art and the "war on terror"
  • Ch. 5. Little glass house of horrors : taking Damien Hirst seriously
  • Ch. 6. Blasted moments : remarking a Hiroshima image
  • Ch. 7. Installing a "new cosmopolitics" : Derrida and the writers
  • Ch. 8. Working out and playing through : Boaz Arad's Hitler videos
  • Ch. 9. Listening with the third ear : echoes from Ground Zero
  • Ch. 10. Conditioning Adorno : "after Auschwitz" now.