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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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Linden, Ari (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
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