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Temptations of Faust : the logic of fascism and postmodern archaeologies of modernity / Evelyn Cobley.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobley, Evelyn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Doktor Faustus.
- Mann, Thomas.
- Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. Philosophie der neuen Musik.
- Adorno, Theodor W.
- Philosophie der neuen Musik (Adorno, Theodor W.).
- Doktor Faustus (Mann, Thomas).
- National socialism.
- Fascism--Philosophy.
- Fascism.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Temptations of Faust is a theoretical analysis of the conceptual paradigms that allowed German fascism to emerge in a highly civilized nation. Analyzing these paradigms through the dual lens of Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, his self-confessed parable of fascism about the avant-garde composer Adrian Leverknhn, and Theodor W. Adorno's Philosophy of Modern Music, this cultural study draws on aesthetic, sociohistorical, political, and philosophical discourses to conclude that German fascism is at once continuous and discontinuous with the emancipatory ambitions of modernity. Drawing on Adorno's sociohistorical critique of avant-garde music, Cobley connects Leverknhn's radical aesthetic innovation with Hitler's radical reconfiguration of Germany's administrative apparatus and discovers that postmodern processes of fragmentation may well remain complicit with the totalizing tendencies they seek to disrupt. This lucid and sophisticated book demonstrates that Doctor Faustus provides a more astute understanding of German fascism than Mann is usually given credit for.
- Contents:
- Neo-romantic roots of German fascism
- Organic unity and the privileging of reason: Hegel and Beethoven
- Fascist undercurrents: appeals to authenticity and the privileging of reason
- Breakthrough into atonality (or postmodernism)
- Fascism and atonality (or postmodern play)
- Decentred totalities: fascism, capitalism, postmodernism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-02280-6
- 9786612022807
- 1-4426-8044-X
- OCLC:
- 244767225
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