The presence of the absent

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENT 5
3. Prologue to an Excursion into the History of Culture 9
4. Part I The Call of Images. On Art, Cult Controversy and the Ban on Idols
5. Crooked Timbers 21
6. Wound, stigmatize, repair, heal 33
7. Beyond Dura Europos: Art, likeness, cult image, prohibition of idols 63
8. Theomorphic Passions, Jewish Findings, Human Spaces 77
9. Beyond Absent, beyond White 91
10. Carving the idols, breaking the seal, showing the blemish 99
11. Interactions and Controversies in Christian visual culture 109
12. No secret behind the curtain. A modern eschatology and its abysses 145
13. Part II The Treachery of Icons. On Truth and Trauma in Images
14. A New Era of Iconopathos: The Return of the Image Controversy in Modern Times 157
15. Moses on the Fountain Pedestal 189
16. Banishing the Terror: Psychostasia and Resurrection, Balances of the Soul and Arenas of Light 197
17. The Fallen Angels of Modernity 253
18. Part III Notching the names, calling to commemoration. Some Reflections on Art and Rituals in Shoah Remembrance
19. The presence of the absent 285
20. Different Calls. On close and distant memories of the Holocaust 291
21. The Liturgy of Broken Tablets. Jewish Shoah remembrance in transition 313
22. The Alphabet of Shoah Remembrance in the Arts 321
23. Notches in an Empty House of Life 331
24. Notes 337
25. Postscript and acknowledgments 385
26. Credits 387
27. Index of names 389
28. References 397