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Tables of Contents for Refractions of Violence
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
10
Against Consolation: Walter Benjamin and the Refusal to Mourn
11
14
Peace in Our Time
25
6
Fathers and Sons: Jan Philipp Reemtsma and the Frankfurt School
31
8
The Ungrateful Dead
39
8
When Did the Holocaust End? Reflections on Historical Objectivity
47
14
The Conversion of the Rose
61
10
Pen Pals with the Unicorn Killer
71
6
Kwangju: From Massacre to Biennale
77
10
Must Justice Be Blind? The Challenge of Images to the Law
87
16
Diving into the Wreck: Aesthetic Spectatorship at the Turn of the Millennium
103
16
Astronomical Hindsight: The Speed of Light and Virtual Reality
119
14
Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism
133
16
Lafayette's Children: The American Reception of French Liberalism
149
14
Somaesthetics and Democracy: John Dewey and Contemporary Body Art
163
14
The Paradoxes of Religious Violence
177
6
Fearful Symmetries: 9/11 and the Agonies of the Left
183
6
Notes
189
30
Index
219