Hell / Schönle / Adams Ruins of Modernity

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9074-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hell, Julia

Schönle, Andreas

Adams, Julia

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle

Part I. Catastrophe, Utopia, and the Architecture of Destruction

1. Authentic Ruins: Products of Modernity / Andreas Huyssen

2. Air War and Architecture / Anthony Vidler

3. Modernism and Destruction in Architecture / Vladimir Paperny

4. Ruins of the Avant-Garde: From Tatlin's Tower to the Paper Architecture / Svetlana Boym

Part II. Ruins and the Democratic Polity

5. Modernity as a "Destroyed Anthill": Tolstoy on History and the Aesthetics of Ruins / Andreas Schönle

6. Democratic Destruction: Ruins and Emancipation in the American Tradition / Russell A. Berman

7. The Ruins of a Republic: Czech Modernism after Munich, 1938–39 / Jonathan Bolton

8. Layered Time: Ruins as Shattered Post, Ruins as Hope in Israeli and German Landscapes and Literatures / Amir Eshel

9. Cities, Citizenship and Other Jo burg Stories / Lucia Saks

Part III. Empires, Ruins, and Their Stories

10. Imperial Ruin Gazers, or Why did Scipio Weep? / Julia Hell

11. Hegel's Philosophy of World History via Sebald's Imaginary of Ruins: A Contrapuntal Critique of the "New Space" of Modernity / Todd Samuel Presner

12. Vilcashuamán: Telling Stories in Ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray

13. The Monument in Ruins / Daniel Herwitz

14. Simultaneous Modernity: Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India / Rahul Mehrotra

Part IV. (Post-)Ruinscapes

15. Ruins as Models: Displaying Destruction

16. "Memory Traces of an Abandoned Set of Futures": Industrial Ruins in the Postindustrial Landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt

17. Colonial Melancholy and Fordist Nostalgia: The Ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz

18. Dr. Strangelove's Cabinet of Wonder: Sifting through the Atomic Ruins at the Nevada Test Site / Jonathan Veitich

19. Invisible at a Glance: Indigenous Cultures of the Past, Ruins, Archaeological Sites, and Our Regimes of Visibility / Gustavo Verdesio

Part V. Ruin Gazing

20. Foundational Ruins: The Lisbon Earthquake and the Sublime / Alexander Regier

21. The Promise of a Ruin: Gavrila Derzhavin's Archaic Modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova

22. Ruin Cinema / Johannes von Moltke

23. The Place of Rubble in the Trummerfilm / Eric Rentschler

24. Lost in Time: Boris Mikhailov and his Study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovksy

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.