| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 228 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 range of other topics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Violence.
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Violence. |
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Civilization, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jay, Martin, 1944- Refractions of violence 0415966655 (DLC) 2003006445 (OCoLC)51900527 |
| ISBN |
9781136730375 (electronic book) |
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1136730370 (electronic book) |
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129997788X (e-book) |
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9781299977884 (e-book) |
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0415966655 |
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9780415966658 |
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0415966663 |
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9780415966665 |
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