The memorial ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Arleen Ionescu.
• Authors: Ionescu, Arleen
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: A Museum with a View; Notes; Chapter 2: Memory, History, Representation; 1 Mnēmē and Anamnesis in History; 2 Individual Memory, Collective Memory, Historical Consciousness; 3 The 'Censure of Memory': On Forgetting, Remembering and Forgiving; 4 Bearing Witness; 5 Zakhor: The Duty to Remember; 6 Quarrels Concerning and Against Revisionists; 7 Working-Through, Anamnesis and the Immemorial; 8 Representation 'after Auschwitz': The Barbaric and the Unpresentable; Notes Chapter 3: Representing the Holocaust in Architecture1 Architecture After the Second World War: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism; 2 Holocaust Memorials Versus Museums; 3 Architecture After the Second World War in Germany; Eisenman's Holocaust Memorial and Libeskind's Jewish Museum; 4 A New Concept: The Experiential Museum; 5 The History of the Berlin Jewish Museum; Notes; Chapter 4: Ethics as Optics: Libeskind's Jewish Museum; 1 From Phenomenology to Ethics: Levinas's 'Vision'; 2 'Seeing Light': Libeskind's Vision of Architectural Space 3 A Counter-Memorial from the Realm of the Para-Architectural4 A Genesis of Libeskind's Structures92; Interlude: Choreography Between the Lines; 5 'Syntax' of the Jewish Museum; 5.1 The Three Axes of the Berlin Jewish Museum; 5.2 Exhibits; 5.3 Libeskind's Voids; 5.4 The Garden of Exile; 5.5 The Memory Void: 'Fallen Leaves'; 5.6 The Holocaust Tower; 6 Derrida's Response to the Jewish Museum; Notes; Chapter 5: Extension to Libeskind's Jewish Museum; 1 The Axis of Continuity: Daniel Libeskind; 2 The Axis of Exile; 3 The Garden of Exile: Franz Kafka; 4 Voids 4.1 FIRST VOID, or the Void of Nothingness: Samuel Beckett4.2 SECOND VOID: Paul Celan; 4.3 THIRD VOID: Jacques Derrida; 4.4 FOURTH VOID: Maurice Blanchot; 4.5 MEMORY VOID: Remembering 'Sam' through Hélène Cixous; 5 The Axis of the Holocaust: Elie Wiesel; THE HOLOCAUST TOWER: Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger; Notes; Chapter 6: Epilogue: Ground Zero-From the Holocaust Tower to the Twin Towers; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Springer Science and Business Media Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.8924043; History; Jewish museums -- Germany -- Berlin; Museums -- Collection management -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Germany -- Berlin; Historiography; Judaism and culture; Architecture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Jewish museums; History -- Historiography; Social Science -- Jewish Studies; Architecture -- History -- General; History -- Europe -- General; Historiography; Judaism; Theory of architecture; European history; History -- Social History; Social & cultural history; Germany -- Berlin; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137538314; 1137538317
• Related ISBNs: 9781137538307; 1137538309
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 3, 2017).
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