Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity /
"Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity argues that the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus's work draws attention to the distinctly modern way in which experience lags behind political catastrophe"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston :
Northwestern University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. Toward a Krausian Theory of Modernity
- Part 1. Satire and Counterdiscourse
- Chapter 1. Reciting War: The Last Days of Mankind (1915-1922)
- Chapter 2. On Birds, Wars, and Fragile Republics: Cloudcuckooland (1923)
- Chapter 3. "Where Illegality Becomes the Law": Third Walpurgis Night (1933/1952)
- Part 2. Dialogues
- Chapter 4. "A Monstrous Nonentity": Kierkegaard, Kraus, and Benjamin
- Chapter 5. "Origin Is the Goal": Adorno and Kraus
- Coda. "Shadows Cast Bodies": Kraus and Posterity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index