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Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory - From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory - From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Series: Studies in European Culture and History
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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 Joeph 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 curent US-led "war on
terror" must be grasped as a globalized inability to mourn.
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