Beschreibung:
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the German artist Gunter Demnig has been installing his Stolpersteine [Stumbling Stones] all over Europe - including Russia - to commemorate the victims of National Socialism. Today, the Stolpersteine constitute the world's second largest Holocaust monument. In this book the author addresses some of the most crucial issues raised by these memorial stones.
CONTENTS: Working Philosophically with Commemoration - Stumbling upon Victims of National Socialism - The Muselmann, or Eliminating Subjectivity - The State of Exception as Paradigm for the Third Reich - Home and Being: Memory between Cartography and Ruin - Contextualizing the Stolpersteine - Art as Ritual Normalization of the Past