This booklet is an in depth severe examine of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum in its old, architectural and philosophical context. Emphasizing how the Holocaust replaced our conception of background, reminiscence, witnessing and illustration, it develops the suggestion of 'memorial ethics' to discover the Museum's distinction from extra traditional post-World warfare commemorative websites. the focus is at the Museum as an adventure of the materiality of trauma which engages the customer in a performative responsibility to recollect. Arleen Ionescu builds on Levinas's proposal of 'ethics as optics' to teach how Libeskind's Museum turns into a sworn statement to the unpresentable different. Ionescu additionally extends the Museum's experiential measurement via offering her personal subjective stroll via Libeskind's area reimagined as a 'literary museum'. that includes reflections on texts by way of Beckett, Celan, Derrida, Kafka, Blanchot, Wiesel and Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (Celan's cousin), this digital travel concludes with a short account of Libeskind's analogous 'healing venture' for floor 0.
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