Physical Description
ix, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Walter Benjamin and the refusal to mourn
Peace in our time
Fathers and sons : Jan Phillip Reemtsma
The ungrateful dead
When did the Holocaust end? Reflections on historical objectivity
The conversion of the Rose
Pen pals with the unicorn killer
Kwangju : from massacre to Biennale
Must justice be blind? : images and the law
Diving into the wreck : aesthetic spectatorship at the turn of the millennium
Astronomical hindsight : the speed of light and the virtualization of reality
Returning the gaze : the American response to the French critique of ocularcentrism
Lafayette's children : the American reception of French liberalism
Somaesthetics and democracy : John Dewey and body art
The paradoxes of religious violence
Fearful symmetries : September 11th and the agonies of the left.
ISBN
0415966655
9780415966658 (HB : alk. paper)
0415966663 (PB : alk. paper)
9780415966665 (PB : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Walter Benjamin and the refusal to mourn -- Peace in our time -- Fathers and sons : Jan Phillip Reemtsma -- The ungrateful dead -- When did the Holocaust end? Reflections on historical objectivity -- The conversion of the Rose -- Pen pals with the unicorn killer -- Kwangju : from massacre to Biennale -- Must justice be blind? : images and the law -- Diving into the wreck : aesthetic spectatorship at the turn of the millennium -- Astronomical hindsight : the speed of light and the virtualization of reality -- Returning the gaze : the American response to the French critique of ocularcentrism -- Lafayette's children : the American reception of French liberalism -- Somaesthetics and democracy : John Dewey and body art -- The paradoxes of religious violence -- Fearful symmetries : September 11th and the agonies of the left.
Additional Form
Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
