UID:
almafu_9959677771902883
Format:
1 online resource (530 p.)
ISBN:
9780822390749
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1-283-03573-1
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9786613035738
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0-8223-9074-4
Series Statement:
Politics, history, and culture : a series from the International Institute at the University of Michigan
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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Authentic ruins : products of modernity / Andreas Huyssen -- Air war and architecture / Anthony Vidler -- Modernism and destruction in architecture / Vladimir Paperny -- Ruins of the avant-garde : from Tatlin's tower to the paper architecture / Svetlana Boym -- Modernity as a "destroyed anthill" : Tolstoy on history and the aesthetics of ruins / Andreas Schonle -- Democratic destruction : ruins and emancipation in the American tradition / Russell A. Berman -- The ruins of a republic : Czech modernism after Munich, 1938/39 / Jonathan Bolton -- Layeredtime : ruins as shattered past, ruins as hope in Israeli and German landscapes and literature / Amir Eshel -- Cities, citizenship, and other Joburg stories / Lucia Saks -- Imperial ruin gazers, or why did Scipio weep? / Julia Hell -- Hegel's philosophy of world history via Sebald's imaginary of ruins : a contrapuntal critique of the "new space" of modernity / Todd Samuel Presner -- Vilcashuaman : telling stories in ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray -- The monument in ruins / Daniel Herwitz -- Simultaneous modernity : negotiations and resistances in urban India / Rahul Mehrotra -- Ruins as models : displaying destruction in postwar Germany / Helmut Puff -- "Memory traces of an abandoned set of futures" : industrial ruins in the postindustrial landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt -- Colonial melancholy and Fordist nostalgia : the ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz -- Dr. Strangelove's cabinet of wonder : sifting through the atomic ruins at the Nevada test site / Jonathan Veitch -- Invisible at a glance : indigenous cultures of the past, ruins, archaeological sites, and our regimes of visibility / Gustavo Verdesio -- Foundational ruins : the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime / Alexander Regier -- The promise of a ruin : Gavrila Derzhavin's archaic modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova -- Ruin cinema / Johannes von Moltke -- The place of rubble in the Trummerfilm / Eric Rentschler -- Lost in time : Boris Mikhailov and his study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovsky.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4474-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4456-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822390749
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