The conquest of ruins the Third Reich and the fall of Rome
Presentación del editor: "The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empir...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press
2019
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010727809708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Post-Roman mimesis and the law of ruin
- After Carthage: the Roman empire, its rubble and ruins
- Post-Roman mimesis as conquest/besetzung: Charles V at Tunis, 1535
- Post-Roman mimesis in the modern age: Cook's second voyage to the South Pacific and the French conquest of Egypt and Algeria
- Barbarians becoming Romans: from Germany's anti-Napoleonic barbarians to the ruin gazer scenarios of the conservative revolution
- With the end in mind: the Nazi empire's post-Roman mimesis and the ruined stage of Rome
- Theorizing empire with the end in sight: Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger
- Epilogue: Anselm Kiefer's Zersetzungen/disarticulations.
