Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bicknell, Jeanette; Korsmeyer, Carolyn; Judkins, Jennifer

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of newly published essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past. The recent destruction of cultural heritage in war and controversies over Civil War monuments in the US have foregrounded the importance of artifacts that embody history. The book invites us to ask: How do memorials convey their meanings? What is our responsibility for the preservation or reconstruction of historically significant structures? How should we respond when the public display of a monument divides a community? This anthology includes coverage of the destruction of Palmyra and the Bamiyan Buddhas, the loss of cultural heritage through war and natural disasters, the explosive controversies surrounding Confederate-era monuments, and the decay of industry in the U.S. Rust Belt. The authors consider issues of preservation and reconstruction, the nature of ruins, the aesthetic and ethical values of memorials, and the relationship of cultural memory to material artifacts that remain from the past. Written by a leading group of philosophers, art historians, and archeologists, the 23 chapters cover monuments and memorials from Dubai to Detroit, from the instant destruction of Hiroshima to the gradual sinking of Venice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351380645
• Artikelnr.: 57137349

Autorenporträt

Jeanette Bicknell is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction (2015) and Why Music Moves Us (2009). Jennifer Judkins is a retired Adjunct Professor of Music at UCLA and has twice served as a Trustee for the American Society for Aesthetics. Recently, she authored two articles in then Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music (2011), and was a guest editor and contributor to the "Symposium on Ruin and Absence" in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2014). Carolyn Korsmeyer is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. Her recent books include Things: In Touch with the Past (2019) and Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics (2011). She is a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction: History, Ethics, Aesthetics: When Values Converge
Part I: Honoring and Mourning
1. Life and Death in Rock: A Meditation on Stone Memorials
Kathleen Higgins
2. How Memorials Speak to Us
Geoffrey Scarre
3. How Memorials Mean, or How To Do Things with Stones
James O. Young
4. The Proper Object of Emotion: Memorial Art, Grief, Remembrance
Deborah Knight
5. Churches as Memory Machines
Noël Carroll
6. More than Bare Bones: The Artistry and Ethics of Ossuaries
Susan L. Feagin and Carolyn Korsmeyer
Part II: Ruins Past and Present
7. The Values of Ruins and Depictions of Ruins
Peter Lamarque
8. On the Road to Ruin: Anticipating and Appreciating the Natural
Degradation of Human Constructions
Ronald Moore
9. Ruins and Sham Ruins as Architectural Objects
Saul Fisher
10. Rust Belt Ruins
Renee Conroy
11. Neo-Picturesque
Dominic McIver Lopes and Susan Herrington
12. Layers in London: How Buildings Remember
Jennifer Judkins
13. From Haunted Ruin to Touristified City: An Aesthetic History of Venice
Max Ryynänen
14. The (Future of the) Ruins in the United Arab Emirates
Zoltán Somhegyi
15. Environmental Heritage and the Ruins of the Future.
Erich Hatala Matthes
Part III: Conflict, Destruction, and the Aftermath
16. The Reconstruction of Damaged or Destroyed Heritage
Derek Matravers
17. Reflections on the Atomic Bomb Ruin in Hiroshima
Yuriko Saito
18. Bamiyan's Echo: Sounding Out the Emptiness
James Janowski
19. The Ruins of War
Elizabeth Scarbrough
20. Respect, Responsibility, and Ruins
Jeremy Page and Elisabeth Schellekens
21. The Physical Legacy of a Troubled Past
Jeanette Bicknell
22. For the Union Dead: Memorial Hall at Harvard University, and the
Exclusion of the Confederate Fallen
Ivan Gaskell
23. Ruins and Debris: Cultural Heritage Practice, Resource Management, and
Archaeology
Robin Coningham and Kai Weise