The Memorial Ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context. Emphasizing how the Holocaust changed our perception of history, memory, witnessing and representation, it develops the notion of 'memorial ethics' to explore the Museum's difference from more conventional post-World War Two commemorative sites. The main focus is on the Museum as an experience of the materiality of trauma which engages the visitor in a performative duty to remember. Arleen Ionescu builds on Levinas's idea of 'ethics as optics' to show how Libeskind's Museum becomes a testimony to the unpresentable Other. Ionescu also extends the Museum's experiential dimension by proposing her own subjective walk through Libeskind's space reimagined as a 'literary museum'. Featuring reflections on texts by Beckett, Celan, Derrida, Kafka, Blanchot, Wiesel and Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (Celan's cousin), this virtual tour concludes with a brief account of Libeskind's analogous 'healing project' for Ground Zero.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Holocaust and its Contexts
Release date:	February 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Arleen Ionescu
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	305
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-53830-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-137-53830-9
Barcode:	9781137538307

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