Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle, eds.

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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