4. Notes. The Forbidden Image: Terrorism, Memory, and Disinterested Pleasure -- Notes -- 1. Does Beauty Think?: The Scope of Aesthetic Reflection and the Scene of Terror -- Ethics and the Aesthetics of Imagining -- Politics, Ethics, and the Beautiful -- The Beautiful, Not the Sublime: Toward an Aesthetics of Freedom Life is Beautiful-After All -- Notes -- 2. A Glimpse into the Forbidden: Aesthetic Appreciation, Kant, and 9/11 -- Damien Hirst and the TV Image of 9/11 -- The Ethics and Politics of Disaster Art -- Stockhausen's Romantic Vision: Authenticity and Terrorism -- Terrorism, Performance, and its Audience -- Notes -- 3. The Nuclear Image and the Forbidden Aesthetics of Beauty -- Los Alamos: Nuclear Scientists as Poets -- Authentic Art and the Nuclear Blast -- Nuclear Terrorism in New York? -- Zeus as A Terrorist -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki as Planes of Aesthetic Terror(ism) -- Stunning Image and the Japanese Memory of Horror -- The Post-Aesthetic and the Artistic in the Nuclear Reality -- Notes -- 4. The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755: Fascination and the Terrorism of Nature -- Imagination: Witnessing the Ineffable -- Delight: Representation, Terror and Edmund Burke -- Art, Fantasy, and Disaster Tourism in Post-Quake Lisbon -- Catastrophism: Revisiting the Earthquake as Show Business -- Notes.
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