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Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781403979445

ISBN: 978-1-349-53124-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 12, 2015

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: The Hit

Ray, Gene

Pages: 1 –18

[Hit happens. A rip, a quick cut by a razor. From the outside, something breaks through and in: an intervention into the stabilized form of psychic life. As if by fate or chance: disturbance, disruption—what will be felt as pain, a crisis or breakdown. A punch in the guts, a violation, a...
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Chapter 2Reading the Lisbon Earthquake: Adorno, Lyotard, and the Contemporary Sublime

Ray, Gene

Pages: 19 –32

[That Auschwitz and Hiroshima are sublime is an assertion that, while never quite attaining full articulation or acceptance, seemed always to have been on the verge of becoming a commonplace of late-twentieth-century thought and theory. That critics and philosophers could have found it...
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Chapter 3Joseph Beuys and the “After-Auschwitz” Sublime

Ray, Gene

Pages: 33 –49

[In one of his last major public addresses, delivered at the Münchner Kammerspiele in November 1985 as part of the lecture series “Talking About One’s Own Country,” Joseph Beuys reflected on his decision to become an artist. After beginning studies in the natural sciences, he concluded that his...
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Chapter 4Ground Zero: Hiroshima Haunts “9/11”

Ray, Gene

Pages: 51 –59

[In the wake of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the spontaneous invocation and rapid popular acceptance of this freighted term mark a specific and potent return of repressed American history. While no critic or analyst has directly confronted this return, the...
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Chapter 5Mirroring Evil: Auschwitz, Art and the “War on Terror”

Ray, Gene

Pages: 61 –72

[Two provocative statements: Adorno’s damning 1966 judgment, condensing two decades of sustained reflection on the implications of Auschwitz for critical theory and the ethics of aesthetic representation; and Finkelstein’s excoriating indictment of Jewish instrumentalization of the Nazi genocide...
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Chapter 6Little Glass House of Horrors: Taking Damien Hirst Seriously

Ray, Gene

Pages: 73 –88

[No one can deny that Damien Hirst worked hard to make his reputation as the leading enfant terrible of the so-called yBas. Whatever one thinks of him, Hirst—whose institutional ascension was made a foregone conclusion by the “Young British Artists I” exhibition in the Saatchi Gallery in London a...
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Chapter 7Blasted Moments: Remarking a Hiroshima Image

Ray, Gene

Pages: 89 –103

[What manifests for me now, this January 2002, what gets in my way and confronts me in this historical moment, is an image of a blasted wristwatch.]
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Chapter 8Installing a “New Cosmopolitics”: Derrida and the Writers

Ray, Gene

Pages: 105 –120

[If, even now, we could still hope to place the non-place or impossible place of “utopia” within a space of its own or a territory proper to it, what would or could its placement or realization mean? If, despite everything, despite the bitter catastrophes and transgressions of a traumatic...
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Chapter 9Working Out and Playing Through: Boaz Arad’s Hitler Videos

Ray, Gene

Pages: 121 –133

[The playfully serious and seriously playful work of Israeli video artist Boaz Arad poses crucial ethico-political questions about the limits to artistic confrontations with genocidal history and its legacies. What are our duties and responsibilities—as artists, critics, and spectators—with...
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Chapter 10Listening with the Third Ear: Echoes from Ground Zero

Ray, Gene

Pages: 135 –141

[The preemptive war in Iraq is over. Or is it? And the Bush doctrine has been vindicated. Or has it? The attacks of September 11, 2001, and the Bush government’s “war on terror” have both united and divided Americans. And as readers of this journal know,1 the doctrine of preemptive attack has...

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