Refractions of violence / Martin Jay.

Author/creator Jay, Martin, 1944-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Descriptionix, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

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 llth and the agonies of the left.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2003006445
ISBN0415966655 (HB : alk. paper)
ISBN0415966663 (PB : alk. paper)

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