1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780908803321

Autore

György Péter

Titolo

Spirit of the place [[electronic resource] ] : from Mauthausen to MoMA / / by Péter György

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest, : CMCS/Center for Media & Communication Studies, 2008

ISBN

9786155211584

978-6-15521-158-4

615-5211-58-2

1-283-24819-0

9786613248190

Descrizione fisica

277 p. : col. ill

Disciplina

701/.03

Soggetti

Art and society

Culture

Museums - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The topography of memory -- 2. Oedipus at Colonus, Freud (museum) in exile -- 3. The empty couch—PSYCHOanalysis -- 4. Frederik Ruysch, Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam -- 5. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich -- 6. Museum of Ara Pacis, Rome -- 7. The disintegration of memory—the unreadable city -- 8. CECI TUERA CELA (This will kill that) -- 9. Clinic and church—The second museum age -- Subject Index -- Name Index

Sommario/riassunto

These essays are case-studies, the cases unraveling our cultural roots, memory itself. If a museum is the subject, then for instance the way the museum changes face, function, its manner of speech; how, a repository of collections and the cultural memory of humankind itself turns into one of the objects, memories, a custodian and exponent of its own history, or the opposite: how it connects with its modernized environs and changing audience: us. How has, or might the sanctum be transformed into a public venue, go from an inward looking, reverential enclosure to a space full of life. In other studies included here the author speaks of spatial and incarnate remembrance: the radical



difference between a monument and a memorial. The duality of “always remembering” and “never forgetting”: a past depersonalized and dehistoricized as it was seized and processed. Of the layers of meaning attached to concentration camps, transmuting essence of artworks, and the difficult, the contradictory but inescapable processing of history and the past, of self-identical existence in history. So that we know we are alive. And how that is so.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960831403321

Autore

Yang Suzanne Xiao

Titolo

China in the UN Security Council decision-making on Iraq : conflicting understandings, competing preferences / / Suzanne Xiao Yang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

9781283642941

1283642948

9780203113615

0203113616

9781136287480

1136287485

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

The new international relations

Disciplina

956.7044/22

Soggetti

Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Diplomatic history

International relations - Decision making

China Foreign relations Decision making

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The reasons for action: strategic preferences in explaining foreign policy -- China's strategic preferences in the UN Security Council, 1971-the mid 1980s -- China's decisions in the Security Council over the use of force (1990-2002) -- State sovereignty vs. humanitarian intervention: China's position over the establishment of no-fly zones (1991-1992) -- China and the UN sanctions regime against Iraq (1991-2002) -- Weapons inspections: China, the UN and



the disarming of Iraq (1991-2002) -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

With the rupture of the UN Security Council in March 2003 over the US spearheaded intervention in Iraq, the attempts made to subject the use of force to the rule of law had failed. Widespread Europe-US disagreement of the role of the UNSC has hindered more effective decisions for China and its European and American counterparts in the Security Council. Iraq, China and the UN Security Council examines the role of China's policy behaviour in relation to the Iraq intervention, in order to develop a better understanding of this fast-rising power within the UN. It looks at key qu