{"product_id":"deaths-showcase-the-power-of-image-in-contemporary-democracy","title":"Death's Showcase – The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn interdisciplinary exploration of the visual presence of death in contemporary culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consists of a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography. The essays focus mainly on representations of violence and death in events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and on the visual presence of traumatic events in Israeli culture throughout the twentieth century. They show how images of these events both shape and aestheticize the viewer's experience of death.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book offers a new reading of the work of Walter Benjamin, particularly his essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.' Engaging the disciplinary perspectives of philosophy, art history, cultural studies, and photographic theory, the book also draws upon the work of such writers as Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean-Luc Nancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780262511339\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £21.42","offer_id":47900546859185,"sku":"SB-0262511339-C3","price":21.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0262511339.jpg?v=1788841905","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/deaths-showcase-the-power-of-image-in-contemporary-democracy","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}