Difference and Orientation : An Alexander Kluge Reader / Alexander Kluge; Richard Langston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kluge, Alexander, 1932-2026, Author.

Contributor:

Langston, Richard, Editor.

Series:

Signale|TRANSFER. German theory in translation.

Cornell scholarship online.

signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (550 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. With the aim of introducing Kluge's heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge's most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Translator Information

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

The Guardian of Difference: The Essayist Alexander Kluge

1. The Difference (1985)

2. Storytelling Is the Representation of Differences (2001)

3. The Peacemaker (2003)

4. Companions in Now-Time (2007)

5. Storytelling Means Dissolving Relations (2008)

6. Theory of Storytelling: Lecture One (2013)

7. What Is a Metaphor? (2016)

8. Word and Film (1965)

9. Bits of Conversation (1966)

10. The Realistic Method and the "Filmic" (1975)

11. Film: A Utopia (1983)

12. A Plan with the Force of a Battleship (2008)

13. No Farewell to Yesterday: New German Cinema from 1962 to 1981 as Seen from 2011 (2012)

14. An Answer to Two Opera Quotations (1983/84)

15. On the Expressions "Media" and "New Media": A Selection of Keywords (1984)

16. Medialization-Musealization (1990)

17. The Opera Machine (2001)

18. Primitive Diversity (2002)

19. Planting Gardens in the Data Tsunami (2010)

20. The Role of Fantasy (1974)

21. The Function of the Distorted Angle in the Destructive Intention (1989)

22. The Political without Its Despair: On the Concept of "Populism" (1992)

23. War (2001)

24. The Art of Drawing Distinctions (2003)

25. Critique, Up Close and Personal (2007)

26. The Actuality of Adorno (2009)

27. Inventory of a Century: On Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (2013)

28. An Instance of Internet Telephony over the Himalayas (2016)

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781501739200

1501739204

9781501739224

1501739220

OCLC:

1122900355