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The Pathos of the Real On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century / Robert Buch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buch, Robert.
- Series:
- Rethinking theory.
- Rethinking theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reality--History--20th century.
- Reality.
- Pathos--History--20th century.
- Pathos.
- Violence--History--20th century.
- Violence.
- Cruelty--History--20th century.
- Cruelty.
- Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 217 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In dialogue with a diverse group of thinkers, from Erich Auerbach and Aby Warburg to Alain Badiou and Jacques Lacan, The Pathos of the Real advances an innovative new framework for rethinking the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- In praise of cruelty: Bataille, Kafka, and ling'-chi
- Fragmentary description of a disaster: Claude Simon
- The resistance to pathos and the pathos of resistance: Peter Weiss
- Medeamachine: the "fallout" of violence in Heiner Müller
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9927-3
- OCLC:
- 794925313
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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