Refractions of Violence

Front Matter\r......Page 1
Contents\r......Page 4
Acknowledgments\r......Page 6
Introduction\r......Page 7
1 Against Consolation: Walter Benjamin and the Refusal to Mourn\r......Page 17
2 Peace in Our Time\r......Page 31
3 Fathers and Sons: Jan Philipp Reemtsma and the Frankfurt School\r......Page 37
4 The Ungrateful Dead\r......Page 44
5 When Did the Holocaust End? Reflections on Historical Objectivity\r......Page 52
6 The Conversion of the Rose\r......Page 66
7 Pen Pals with the Unicorn Killer\r......Page 76
8 Kwangju: From Massacre to Biennale\r......Page 82
9 Must Justice Be Blind? The Challenge of Images to the Law\r......Page 91
10 Diving into the Wreck: Aesthetic Spectatorship at the Turn of the Millennium\r......Page 106
11 Astronomical Hindsight: The Speed of Light and Virtual Reality\r......Page 121
12 Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism\r......Page 134
13 Lafayette\'s Children: The American Reception of French Liberalism\r......Page 149
14 Somaesthetics and Democracy: John Dewey and Contemporary Body Art\r......Page 163
15 The Paradoxes of Religious Violence\r......Page 177
16 Fearful Symmetries: 9/11 and the Agonies of the Left\r......Page 183
Notes\r......Page 188
Index\r......Page 217