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Existential Ethics (Sartre and de Beauvoir)

Sartre on line
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Ernest Brown, Sartre on 'bad faith'
Literature and Ethics, special issue of Poetics Today , vol. 25, no. 4, 2005.
Simmone de Beauvoir. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Simmone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, transl. by Bernard Frechtman
The Philosophy of Simmone de Beauvoir, special issue of Hypatia, Vol. 14, no 4, Fall 1999.

Abject/Abject Art

the abject - bibliography
Jan-Ove Steihaug, Abject/ Infome/ Trauma. Discourses on the Body in American Art of the Nineties
Kristeva, Sherman, Butler and the Abject
Abject Art
Andres Serrano
Taboo: Art Censorship
Body Worlds official site (van Hagens)
Bone Art
overaestheticization? Andy Goldsworthy
Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutui, Caravaggio's secret. MIT Press, 1998 (chapter I)

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski
Chistian Boltanski: the childhood, the mission, the attempt
Monument (1989)
Gymnasium Chases (1991) Gymnasium Chases (1991)
Canada 1989-90 (and other works)
Boltanski's sentimental art
Reflexion (2000)
Les Abonnes du Telephone (2002)
Odessa's Ghosts (2005)
Storerooms at the Christian Boltanski Children's Museum (visit it!)
Rebecca Caines, "Christian Boltanski: representation and the performance of memory." Afterimage, July-August, 2004.

Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou "Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art"
Alain Badiou, "The Scene of Two"

Ethics in Archaeology and Anthropology

ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums (2004)
Repatriation and Cultural Property Rights (International and national conventions, declarations, and acts)
World Arachaeological Cogress (First Code of Ethics)

Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein
Nicola Glover, "Essentials of Klenian Theory," in his Psychoanalytic Aesthetics: The British School

see also:
Introductory Guide to Critical Theory