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Ruins of modernity / edited by Julia Hell and Andreas Schonle.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Politics, history, and culture.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Politics, history, and culture : a series from the International Institute at the University of Michigan
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruins, Modern.
- Civilization, Modern--20th century.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Civilization, Modern--21st century.
- Ruins in literature.
- Ruins in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (530 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary work uses the concept of the ruin as an approach to the study of modernity, asking whether there is an intrinsic logic of "ruin" at work in modernity.
- Contents:
- Authentic ruins : products of modernity / Andreas Huyssen
- Air war and architecture / Anthony Vidler
- Modernism and destruction in architecture / Vladimir Paperny
- Ruins of the avant-garde : from Tatlin's tower to the paper architecture / Svetlana Boym
- Modernity as a "destroyed anthill" : Tolstoy on history and the aesthetics of ruins / Andreas Schonle
- Democratic destruction : ruins and emancipation in the American tradition / Russell A. Berman
- The ruins of a republic : Czech modernism after Munich, 1938/39 / Jonathan Bolton
- Layeredtime : ruins as shattered past, ruins as hope in Israeli and German landscapes and literature / Amir Eshel
- Cities, citizenship, and other Joburg stories / Lucia Saks
- Imperial ruin gazers, or why did Scipio weep? / Julia Hell
- Hegel's philosophy of world history via Sebald's imaginary of ruins : a contrapuntal critique of the "new space" of modernity / Todd Samuel Presner
- Vilcashuaman : telling stories in ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray
- The monument in ruins / Daniel Herwitz
- Simultaneous modernity : negotiations and resistances in urban India / Rahul Mehrotra
- Ruins as models : displaying destruction in postwar Germany / Helmut Puff
- "Memory traces of an abandoned set of futures" : industrial ruins in the postindustrial landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt
- Colonial melancholy and Fordist nostalgia : the ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz
- Dr. Strangelove's cabinet of wonder : sifting through the atomic ruins at the Nevada test site / Jonathan Veitch
- Invisible at a glance : indigenous cultures of the past, ruins, archaeological sites, and our regimes of visibility / Gustavo Verdesio
- Foundational ruins : the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime / Alexander Regier
- The promise of a ruin : Gavrila Derzhavin's archaic modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova
- Ruin cinema / Johannes von Moltke
- The place of rubble in the Trummerfilm / Eric Rentschler
- Lost in time : Boris Mikhailov and his study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovsky.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-487) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613035738
- 9781283035736
- 1283035731
- 9780822390749
- 0822390744
- OCLC:
- 631195264
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