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Informationen zum Autor Julia Hell is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Post-Fascist Fantasies: History, Psychoanalysis, and East German Literature, also published by Duke University Press.Andreas Schönle is Professor of Russian Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Ruler in the Garden: Politics and Landscape Design in Imperial Russia and Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790–1840. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs! natural disasters! or factory closings! but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather! looking at ruins! writing about them! and representing them! are acts framed by a long tradition. This collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction / Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle Part I. Catastrophe, Utopia, and the Architecture of Destruction 1. Authentic Ruins: Products of Modernity / Andreas Huyssen 2. Air War and Architecture / Anthony Vidler 3. Modernism and Destruction in Architecture / Vladimir Paperny 4. Ruins of the Avant-Garde: From Tatlin's Tower to the Paper Architecture / Svetlana Boym Part II. Ruins and the Democratic Polity 5. Modernity as a "Destroyed Anthill": Tolstoy on History and the Aesthetics of Ruins / Andreas Schönle 6. Democratic Destruction: Ruins and Emancipation in the American Tradition / Russell A. Berman 7. The Ruins of a Republic: Czech Modernism after Munich, 1938–39 / Jonathan Bolton 8. Layered Time: Ruins as Shattered Post, Ruins as Hope in Israeli and German Landscapes and Literatures / Amir Eshel 9. Cities, Citizenship and Other Jo burg Stories / Lucia Saks Part III. Empires, Ruins, and Their Stories 10. Imperial Ruin Gazers, or Why did Scipio Weep? / Julia Hell 11. Hegel's Philosophy of World History via Sebald's Imaginary of Ruins: A Contrapuntal Critique of the "New Space" of Modernity / Todd Samuel Presner 12. Vilcashuamán: Telling Stories in Ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray 13. The Monument in Ruins / Daniel Herwitz 14. Simultaneous Modernity: Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India / Rahul Mehrotra Part IV. (Post-)Ruinscapes 15. Ruins as Models: Displaying Destruction 16. "Memory Traces of an Abandoned Set of Futures": Industrial Ruins in the Postindustrial Landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt 17. Colonial Melancholy and Fordist Nostalgia: The Ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz 18. Dr. Strangelove's Cabinet of Wonder: Sifting through the Atomic Ruins at the Nevada Test Site / Jonathan Veitich 19. Invisible at a Glance: Indigenous Cultures of the Past, Ruins, Archaeological Sites, and Our Regimes of Visibility / Gustavo Verdesio Part V. Ruin Gazing 20. Foundational Ruins: The Lisbon Earthquake and the Sublime / Alexander Regier 21. The Promise of a Ruin: Gavrila Derzhavin's Archaic Modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova 22. Ruin Cinema / Johannes von Moltke 23. The Place of Rubble in the Trummerfilm / Eric Rentschler 24. Lost in Time: Boris Mikhailov and his Study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovksy Bibliography Contributors Index...
