Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory
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Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory

From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11

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Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory

From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11

About this book

The eleven interconnected essays of this book penetrate the dense historical knots binding terror, power and the aesthetic sublime and bring the results to bear on the trauma of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror. Through rigorous critical studies of major works of post-1945 and contemporary culture, the book traces transformations in art and critical theory in the aftermath of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. Critically engaging with the work of continental philosophers, Theodor W. Adorno, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Francois Lyotard and of contemporary artists Joseph Beuys, Damien Hirst, and Boaz Arad, the book confronts the shared cultural conditions that made Auschwitz and Hiroshima possible and offers searching meditations on the structure and meaning of the traumatic historical 'event'. Ray argues that globalization cannot be separated from the collective tasks of working through historical genocide. He provocatively concludes that the current US-led War on Terror must be grasped as a globalized inability to mourn.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9781349531240, 9781403969408
eBook ISBN
9781403979445
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Introduction: The Hit
  7. Chapter One: Reading the Lisbon Earthquake: Adorno, Lyotard, and the Contemporary Sublime
  8. Chapter Two: Joseph Beuys and the “After-Auschwitz” Sublime
  9. Chapter Three: Ground Zero: Hiroshima Haunts “9/11”
  10. Chapter Four: Mirroring Evil: Auschwitz, Art and the “War on Terror”
  11. Chapter Five: Little Glass House of Horrors: Taking Damien Hirst Seriously
  12. Chapter Six: Blasted Moments: Remarking a Hiroshima Image
  13. Chapter Seven: Installing a “New Cosmopolitics”: Derrida and the Writers
  14. Chapter Eight: Working Out and Playing Through: Boaz Arad’s Hitler Videos
  15. Chapter Nine: Listening with the Third Ear: Echoes from Ground Zero
  16. Chapter Ten: Conditioning Adorno: “After Auschwitz” Now
  17. Notes
  18. Index