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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jay, Martin, 1944-
Imprint:	New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 228 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Violence. Civilization, Modern -- 20th century. Civilization, Modern. Violence. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11303348

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ISBN:	9781136730375 1136730370 129997788X 9781299977884 0415966655 9780415966658 0415966663 9780415966665
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	A new collection of essays by the internationally recognized cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay that revolves around the themes of violence and visuality, with essays on the Holocaust and virtual reality, religious violence, the art world, and the Unicorn Killer, among a wide range of other topics.
Other form:	Print version: Jay, Martin, 1944- Refractions of violence 0415966655

Table of Contents:

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 11th and the agonies of the left.

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