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Ruins of Modernity
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Edited by:
Julia Hell
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
About this book
This interdisciplinary work uses the concept of the ruin as an approach to the study of modernity, asking whether there is an intrinsic logic of "ruin" at work in modernity.
Author / Editor information
Julia Hell is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Post-Fascist Fantasies: History, Psychoanalysis, and East German Literature, also published by Duke University Press.
Andreas Schönle is Professor of Russian Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Ruler in the Garden: Politics and Landscape Design in Imperial Russia and Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790–1840.
Reviews
“Ever since Shelley’s traveler returned from an ‘antique land’ with news of the shattered statue of Ozymandias, king of kings, we have pondered the sober lessons of ruins and their mockery of human pretension. In this remarkable collection assembled by Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle, the ruinscape is that of the modern world and the gazes fall as much on our prior attempts to make sense of it as on the ruins themselves.”—Martin Jay, author of Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme
“The scope of this book is ambitious; the execution is masterful. It is a superb collection of reflections by major scholars on the pervasive presence of ruins in contemporary cultures. It is sure to find a wide readership among urban historians; scholars of modernity; scholars and students of German, European, and post-Soviet studies; film scholars; and art historians.”—Ulrich Baer, author of Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma
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PART I CATASTROPHE, UTOPIA, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESTRUCTION
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Products of Modernity Andreas Huyssen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Vladimir Paperny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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From Tatlin’s Tower to Paper Architecture Svetlana Boym Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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PART II RUINS AND THE DEMOCRATIC POLITY
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Tolstoy on History and the Aesthetics of Ruins Andreas Schönle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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DEMOCRATIC DESTRUCTION Russell A. Berman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Czech Modernism after Munich, 1938–1939 Jonathan Bolton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Ruins as Shattered Past, Ruins as Hope in Israeli and German Landscapes and Liter Amir Eshel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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PART III EMPIRES, RUINS, AND THEIR STORIES
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A Contrapuntal Critique of the ‘‘New Space’’ of Modernity Todd Samuel Presner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Telling Stories in Ruins Jon Beasley-Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Daniel Herwitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India Rahul Mehrotra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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PART IV (POST)RUINSCAPES
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Displaying Destruction in Postwar Germany Helmut Puff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Industrial Ruins in the Postindustrial Landscapes of Germany Kerstin Barndt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The Ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit George Steinmetz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Sifting through the Atomic Ruins at the Nevada Test Site Jonathan Veitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Indigenous Cultures of the Past, Ruins, Archaeological Sites, and Our Regimes of Visibility Gustavo Verdesio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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PART V RUIN GAZING
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The Lisbon Earthquake and the Sublime Alexander Regier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Gavrila Derzhavin’s Archaic Modernity Tatiana Smoliarova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Boris Mikhailov and His Study of the Soviet Helen Petrovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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March 19, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780822390749
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
528
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83 illustrations
