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The memorial ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum / Arleen Ionescu.
Author
Ionescu, Arleen
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Language
English
Published/Created
London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
©2017
Description
xiii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Subject(s)
Jewish museums
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Germany
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Berlin
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Museums
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Collection management
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Moral and ethical aspects
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Germany
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Berlin
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Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999- )
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Libeskind, Daniel 1946-
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Series
Holocaust and its contexts
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The Holocaust and its contexts
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
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.
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ISBN
9781137538307 ((hbk. ; : acid-free paper))
1137538309 ((hbk. ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
2016956487
OCLC
952789110
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