Terror and the sublime in art and critical theory [electronic resource] : from Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 / by Gene Ray.

Introduction : the hit
Ch. 1. Reading the Lisbon earthquake : Adorno, Lyotard, and the contemporary sublime
Ch. 2. Joseph Beuys and the "after-Auschwitz" sublime
Ch. 3. Ground Zero : Hiroshima haunts "9/11"
Ch. 4. Mirroring evil : Auschwitz, art and the "war on terror"
Ch. 5. Little glass house of horrors : taking Damien Hirst seriously
Ch. 6. Blasted moments : remarking a Hiroshima image
Ch. 7. Installing a "new cosmopolitics" : Derrida and the writers
Ch. 8. Working out and playing through : Boaz Arad's Hitler videos
Ch. 9. Listening with the third ear : echoes from Ground Zero
Ch. 10. Conditioning Adorno : "after Auschwitz" now.