Death's showcase : the power of image in contemporary democracy

Collection of works previously published chiefly in Hebrew. With new works and introduction.
We cite from the COVER:
"This is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consists of a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography. The essays focus mainly on representations of violence and death in events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak. Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and on the visual presence of traumatic events in Israeli culture throughout the twentieth century. They show how images of these events both shape and aestheti-cize the viewer's experience of death."
"The book offers a new reading of the work of Walter Benjamin, particularly his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Engaging the disciplinary perspectives of philosophy, art history, cultural studies, and photographic theory, the book also draws upon the work of such writers as Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jiirgen Habermas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Jean-Luc Nancy."
CONTENTS:
chapter 1 : INTRODUCTION: ON THE WORK OF DEATH IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION
chapter 2 : [DEATH'S] DISPLAY SHOWCASE: WALTER BENJAMIN
chapter 3 : THE [AESTHETIC] DISTANCE: BENJAMIN AND HEIDEGGER
chapter 4 : THE [SPECTATOR'S] PLACE: ADOLF HITLER AND EVA BRAUN
chapter 5 : THE [BLIND] GESTURE: HIROSHIMA
chapter 6 : [CRITICAL] IMAGE
chapter 7 : THE [SIMULATED] CITY: JERUSALEM
chapter 8 : THE FLOODLIT ARENA [OF MURDER]: YITZHAK RABIN
chapter 9 : SAVE AS JerusalemS
chapter 10 : THE PICTURE [OF THE BATTLEFIELD]
chapter 11 : [ART] MUSEUM
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