Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Introductory
5. “Writing against the Ruins”: Towards a Postmodern Ethics of Memory 3
6. From Modernity to Postmodernity 25
7. Spectres of the Modern: Philosophical Reflections
8. On Being “the Last Kantian in Nazi Germany”: Dwelling with Animals after Levinas 41
9. The Transject: The Ethical Subject of Postmodernity 75
10. Museums and Memory
11. Salvador Allende and the Construction of a Harmless Icon: Museums and Memory 91
12. Commemoration/(de)Celebration: Super-shows and the Decolonization of Canadian Museums, 1967–92 99
13. “Into the Heart of Africa”: Curatorship, Controversy, and Situated Knowledges 125
14. Visual Culture
15. The Unbearable Strangeness of Being: Edgar Reitz’s Heimat and the Ethics of the Unheimlich 149
16. Devastation of the Hapless Structure: Architecture and Ethics 203
17. Beyond the Frame: Ethical Encounters and Morality in Deleuze’s Cinematic 207
18. Relations with the Other
19. The Marginal Other: Modern Figures and Ethical Dialogues 227
20. Changing Health Moralities in the Tropics: Ethics and the Other 254
21. Styles and Genres of the Ethical Subject
22. “Covering Their Familiar Ways with Another Culture”: Minnie Aodla Freeman’s Life among the Qallunaat and the Ethics of Subjectivity 273
23. “A Network of Relations”: Ethical Interdependene in Bronwen Wallace’s Talking Lyric 302
24. Memory, Identity, and Redemption Notes on the Culture of Autobiography 333