Refractions of Violence

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Psychology Press, 2003 - History - 228 pages
A new collection of essays by the internationally recognized cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay that revolves around the themes of violence and visuality, with essays on the Holocaust and virtual reality, religious violence, the art world, and the Unicorn Killer, among a wide range of other topics.
 

Contents

Peace in Our Time
25
The Ungrateful Dead
39
The Conversion of the Rose
61
From Massacre to Biennale
77
Aesthetic Spectatorship
103
The Speed of Light
119
The American Response
133
The American Reception
149
John Dewey
163
The Paradoxes of Religious Violence
177
Index
219
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Martin Jay is Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books including Fin-de-SiƩle Socialism and Other Essays (1988), Force Fields (1993) and co-editor of Vision in Context (1996), all published by Routledge.

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