Physical Description
xiv, 220 p. ; 22 cm.
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
Ch. 11. Beyond enforcement : traversing state terror and the politics of fear.
ISBN
9780230110489
0230110487 (pbk.)
Notes
Originally published: New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Ch. 11. Beyond enforcement : traversing state terror and the politics of fear.
