Refractions of violence

by Jay, Martin

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Title Statements

Full title :Refractions of violence / Martin Jay.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 228 p. : : ill. ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0415966655, 9780415966658, 0415966663, 9780415966665
oclc:ocn492044738
LC Classification:HM1116
Dewey Decimal:303.6

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.

Subjects

20e siècle 21e siècle Civilisation Civilisation -- 20e siècle civilisation -- violence -- 20e s Civilization, Modern Civilization, Modern -- 20th century Culture Culture populaire Violence