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The memorial ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum
- Title
- The memorial ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum / Arleen Ionescu.
- Author
- Ionescu, Arleen
- Publication
- London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 305 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context. Emphasizing how the Holocaust changed our perception of history, memory, witnessing and representation, it develops the notion of 'memorial ethics' to explore the Museum's difference from more conventional post-World War Two commemorative sites. The main focus is on the Museum as an experience of the materiality of trauma which engages the visitor in a performative duty to remember. Arleen Ionescu builds on Levinas's idea of 'ethics as optics' to show how Libeskind's Museum becomes a testimony to the unpresentable Other. Ionescu also extends the Museum's experiential dimension by proposing her own subjective walk through Libeskind's space reimagined as a 'literary museum'. Featuring reflections on texts by Beckett, Celan, Derrida, Kafka, Blanchot, Wiesel and Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (Celan's cousin), this virtual tour concludes with a brief account of Libeskind's analogous 'healing project' for Ground Zero.
- Series Statement
- The Holocaust and its contexts
- Uniform Title
- Holocaust and its contexts.
- Subject
- Libeskind, Daniel, 1946-
- Libeskind, Daniel 1946-
- Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999- )
- Jüdisches Museum Berlin 1999-
- Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999-)
- Jewish museums > Germany > Berlin
- Museums > Collection management > Moral and ethical aspects > Germany > Berlin
- Jewish museums
- Architektur
- Ethik
- Kollektives Gedächtnis
- Germany > Berlin
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography (pages 267-294) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: a museum with a view -- Memory, history, representation -- Representing the Holocaust in architecture -- Ethics as optics: Libeskind's Jewish Museum -- Extension to Libeskind's Jewish Museum -- Epilogue: Ground Zero -- from the Holocaust Tower to the Twin Towers.
- ISBN
- 9781137538307
- 1137538309
- 9781137538314 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016956487
- OCLC
- ocn952789110
- 952789110
- SCSB-14496214
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library