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The Memorial Ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Memorial Ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts
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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.
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