Inconceivable Effects : Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film.
Title:
Inconceivable Effects : Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film.
Author:
Blumenthal-Barby, Martin.
ISBN:
9780801467394
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (222 pages)
Series:
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Ethics and Poetics: An Uneasy Affair -- Introduction -- 1. "The Odium of Doubtfulness": Or the Vicissitudes of Arendt's Metaphorical Thinking -- 2. Why Does Hannah Arendt Lie? Or the Vicissitudes of Imagination -- 3. "A Peculiar Apparatus": Kafka's Thanatopoetics -- 4. A Strike of Rhetoric: Benjamin's Paradox of Justice -- 5. Pernicious Bastardizations: Benjamin's Ethics of Pure Violence -- 6. The Return of the Human: Germany in Autumn -- 7. A Politics of Enmity: Müller's Germania Death in Berlin -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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