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Visualizing Atrocity - Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness (Paperback) Loot Price: R788
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Visualizing Atrocity - Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness (Paperback): Valerie Hartouni

Visualizing Atrocity - Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness (Paperback)

Valerie Hartouni

Series: Critical Cultural Communication

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Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism's broader, constitutive, and recurrent features. These myths are inextricably tied to and reinforced viscerally by the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps at the war's end and played an especially important, evidentiary role in the postwar trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking and seeing were first established with respect to these images that were later reinforced and institutionalized through Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem as simply part of the fabric of historical fact. They have come to constitute a certain visual rhetoric that now circumscribes the moral and political fields and powerfully assists in contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt's claims about the "banality of evil" work to disrupt this visual rhetoric. More significantly still, they direct our attention well beyond the figure of Eichmann to a world organized now as then by practices and processes that while designed to sustain and even enhance life work as well to efface it.

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Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Critical Cultural Communication
Release date: August 2012
First published: August 2012
Authors: Valerie Hartouni
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-6976-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide
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LSN: 0-8147-6976-4
Barcode: 9780814769768

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