Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials

Jeanette Bicknell, Jennifer Judkins, Carolyn Korsmeyer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-50469-1 (ISBN)

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The essays in this volume consider our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2019
Zusatzinfo	40 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-138-50469-6 / 1138504696
ISBN-13	978-1-138-50469-1 / 9781138504691
Zustand	Neuware