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Refractions of violence / Martin Jay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jay, Martin, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence.
- Civilization, Modern--20th century.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Contents:
- Against consolation : Walter Benjamin and the refusal to mourn
- Peace in our time
- Fathers and sons : Jan Phillip Reemtsma
- The ungrateful dead
- When did the Holocaust end? Reflections on historical objectivity
- The conversion of the Rose
- Pen pals with the unicorn killer
- Kwangju : from massacre to Biennale
- Must justice be blind? : images and the law
- Diving into the wreck : aesthetic spectatorship at the turn of the millennium
- Astronomical hindsight : the speed of light and the virtualization of reality
- Returning the gaze : the American response to the French critique of ocularcentrism
- Lafayette's children : the American reception of French liberalism
- Somaesthetics and democracy : John Dewey and body art
- The paradoxes of religious violence
- Fearful symmetries : September llth and the agonies of the left.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415966655
- 0415966663
- OCLC:
- 51900527
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