The Sense of Semblance: Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art

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addressivity, 23, 40, 41, 42 Adorno, Theodor W.: Aesthetic Theory, 4, 6, 14, 73, 209; Anglophone philosophy would benefit aesthetics of, 13–14, 210; on art making determinate its irreconcilability, 7, 14; on artworks as a priori negative, 137; on artworks as systems of irreconcilability, 1, 14, 209–10; on artworks revealing ever new layers, 17; on “Auschwitz,” 212n6; on constitutive tension between poles of artwork, 4, 5–6, 14; dialectic of aesthetic semblance, 4–8, 17–18, 209; on expression as phenomenon of interference, 184; fascination with Celan, 227n148; on future of art, 73; on instrumentalization, 12; on internal and external approaches to art, 204; on invoking ideals and suffering of others, 136; on mimesis, 193; on modernity, 76; on moral imperative of aesthetic relation, 208; on morality of thought, 210; on new categorical imperative, 206; on normatively minimalist framework for art, 7, 16; on riddle-character of art, 7, 14; on self-conscious spontaneity of thought, 209; on true basis of morality, 207; on writing poetry after Auschwitz, 198, 206–7, 212n9 aesthetics: aesthetic autonomy, 4, 6–8, 15, 17–18, 41, 43, 61, 62, 166, 167; aesthetic distanciation, 144; aesthetic heteronomy, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 166, 209; applied normative philosophical, 1–3; dialectic of aesthetic semblance, 4–8, 13, 14, 17–21, 31, 39–40, 51, 61, 67, 72, 136, 209, 210; functional definition of aesthetic properties, 206, 251n14; genuine artworks as resistant to aesthetic categories, 208; Idealist versus deconstructive theories of, 18; open-ended experiences, 198; relationship to nonaesthetic, 5, 6, 17–18, 20 Aesthetic Theory (Adorno), 4, 6, 14, 73, 209 Altun, Cemal, 80 analogon, 170, 180, 185, 189, 195 Anscombe, G. E. M., 157–58 Arendt, Hannah, 70, 229n202 Aristotle, 107, 195, 235n52 Aschrott-Brunnen (Kassel), 117–18 assurance view of testimony, 199–203, 210 Bäcker, Heimrad, 137–59; Anglophone philosophy for understanding work of, 15; concrete poetry, 3, 15, 137, 139, 147, 150–52; in Hitler Youth, 138; poetics of quotation of, 150– 53. See also system nachschrift Bakhtin, Mikhail, 19–21, 22, 23, 26, 41, 217n12 Balmont, Konstantin Dmitriyevich, 24, 25–26 Bavarian Quarter memorial (Berlin), 124–36; as civil memorial, 135; controversy surrounding, 75; as counter-monument, 236n74; as decentralized, 125; disintegrates traditional category of unified artwork, 128–30; interaction between text, image, location, and everyday practice, 125, 127; and materialist theory of meaning, 208–9; as performance landscape, 121; purpose of, 125; shows that i n de x Index 274 institutions and discourses have ghosts, 136; stereoscopic effect created by, 131 beauty, 10, 208 Benjamin, Walter: on articulating the past historically, 63, 124; on art in age of technological reproduction, 165; on Baroque allegory, 130; on citation in historical texts, 137; on cultic ritual versus progressive politics, 131; on dialectical images, 15, 75, 132–33, 210; “Fate and Character,” 56, 228n163; on historical experience, 65; on history as subject of construction, 64; on Jetztsein, 59; on Malebranche on attentiveness, 73; on modernity, 76; on moment of danger, 63, 124, 130; on monadological structure of historical object, 84, 132; on non-sensible similarities, 15, 133, 238n95; on pausing for breath, 225n131; on telescoping past through present, 75; on witnessing, 222n94 Bergson, Henri, 22 Berlin: construction and modernization of municipal infrastructure, 136; “Memorial to Cemal Altun,” 80–82, 81. See also Bavarian Quarter memorial; “Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe”; Neue Wache (“New Watch”) Bernard-Donals, Michael, 10–11, 13 Bernstein, J. M., 251n6 Bitburg Cemetery, 97, 115 “Black Form—Dedicated to the Missing Jews” (LeWitt), 116 Bloch, Marc, 82 Blok, Alexandr, 26, 71 Booth, Wayne, 158–59 Böschenstein, Bernard, 26–27, 219n41 Bourdieu, Pierre, 82, 231n17 Bremen speech (Celan), 40–43 “Brother Osip” (Celan), 27–28, 58 Buber, Martin, 41, 48–49, 223n98, 225n130 Büchner, Georg: Dantons Tod, 44; Hessicher Landbote, 70; Lenz, 43–47, 58; Leonce und Lena, 30 Caillois, Roger, 130 Caruth, Cathy, 13 catharsis, 107, 110 causal theory of names, 15, 36–39, 52, 208, 210 Celan, Paul: aesthetic-historical materialism of, 18, 65, 72–73; birthplace of, 58; Bremen speech, 40–43; “Brother Osip,” 27–28, 58; Büchner Prize for, 29, 43; on counter-words, 44–45, 67, 224n121; in debate surrounding linguistic meaning, 17; Derrida on, 32; dialogism of, 19; dialogue with Mandelshtam, 26–31; “Du Liegst,” 30–31, 33, 39–40, 51, 58, 63; “Du Liegst Hinaus,” 54–55; “Engführung,” 47, 130, 237n89; Gadamer on, 19; on his poems as open, 62; “In Eins,” 69–70, 229n198...