Terror and the sublime in art and critical theory [electronic resource] : from Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 / by Gene Ray.
Series: Studies in European culture and historyPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Description: xiv, 188 pISBN:- 140396940X (alk. paper)
- 1403979448
- 700/.4164 22
- NX650.S92 R39 2005eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the hit -- Ch. 1. Reading the Lisbon earthquake : Adorno, Lyotard, and the contemporary sublime -- Ch. 2. Joseph Beuys and the "after-Auschwitz" sublime -- Ch. 3. Ground Zero : Hiroshima haunts "9/11" -- Ch. 4. Mirroring evil : Auschwitz, art and the "war on terror" -- Ch. 5. Little glass house of horrors : taking Damien Hirst seriously -- Ch. 6. Blasted moments : remarking a Hiroshima image -- Ch. 7. Installing a "new cosmopolitics" : Derrida and the writers -- Ch. 8. Working out and playing through : Boaz Arad's Hitler videos -- Ch. 9. Listening with the third ear : echoes from Ground Zero -- Ch. 10. Conditioning Adorno : "after Auschwitz" now.
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