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Inconceivable effects : ethics through twentieth-century German literature, thought, and film / Martin Blumenthal-Barby.
LIBRA PT405 .B5384 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumenthal-Barby, Martin, author.
- Series:
- Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Ethics--Germany--History--20th century.
- Ethics.
- Ethics in literature.
- Ethics in motion pictures.
- History.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2013.
- Contents:
- "The odium of doubtfulness" : or, the vicissitudes of Arendt's metaphorical thinking
- Why does Hannah Arendt lie? : or, the vicissitudes of imagination
- "A peculiar apparatus" : Kafka's thanatopoetics
- A strike of rhetoric : Benjamin's paradox of justice
- Pernicious bastardizations : Benjamin's ethics of pure violence
- The return of the human : Germany in autumn
- A politics of enmity : Müller's Germania death in Berlin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801478123
- 080147812X
- OCLC:
- 822895857
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