The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe

1. Prologue: The Day the Wall Came Down (American Surreal)
Derek Sayer

2. Introduction: Delicate Empiricism
Dariusz Gafijczuk

3. Ruins and Representations of 1989: Exception, Normality, Revolution
Tim Beasley-Murray

4. The Ruins of a Myth or a Myth in Ruins? Freedom and Cohabitation in Central Europe
Paul Blokker

5. Democracy in Ruins: The Case of the Hungarian Parliament
Endre Dányi

6. Itinerant Memory Places: The Baader-Meinhof-Wagen
Kimberly Mair

7. Edith Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: A Story of Farnsworth House
Yoke-Sum Wong

8. Fake Fragments, Fake Ruins, and Genuine Paper Ruination
Jindřich Toman

9. How We Remember and What We Forget: Art History and the Czech Avant-garde
Derek Sayer

10. Anxious Geographies — Inhabited Traditions
Dariusz Gafijczuk

11. Terezín as Reverse Potemkin Ruin, in Five Movements and an Epilogue
Michael Beckerman

12. Desert Europa and the Sea of Ruins: The Post-Apocalyptic Imagination in Egon Bondy’s Afghanistan
Jonathan Bolton

13. History’s Loose Ends: Imagining the Velvet Revolution
Peter Zusi

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Arts, European History, Literature, general, Social History, Cultural History, Modern History