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Refractions of violence /
A new collection of essays by the internationally recognized cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay that revolves around the themes of violence and visuality, with essays on the Holocaust and virtual reality, religious violence, the art world, and the Unicorn Killer, among a wide rang...
| Clasificación: | HM1116 J3.85 |
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2003].
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Against consolation: walter benjamin and the refusal to mourn.
- 2. Peace in our time.
- 3. Fathers and sons: Jan Philipp Reemtsma and the Frankfurt School.
- 4. Ungrateful dead.
- 5. When did the holocaust end? reflections on historical objectivity.
- 6. Conversion of the rose.
- 7. Pen pals with the unicorn killer.
- 8. Kwangju: from massacre to Biennale.
- 9. Must justice be blind? The Challenge of images to the law.
- 10. Diving into the Wreck: aesthetic spectatorship at the turn of the Millennium.
- 11. Astronomical hindsight: the speed of light and virtual reality.
- 12. Returning the Gaze: the American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism.