Thought-images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life - Couverture rigide

Richter, Gerhard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804756163 ISBN 13 : 9780804756167

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

In this book, Gerhard Richter explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of the Denkbild, or thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer. The Denkbild is a poetic mode of writing, a brief snapshot-in-prose that stages the interrelation of literary, philosophical, political, and cultural insights. Richter's careful analysis of the linguistic characteristics of this mode of writing sheds new light on pivotal concerns of modernity, including the fractured cityscape, philosophical problems of modern music, the experience of exiled homelessness, and the disaster of Auschwitz. Thought-Images not only reorients our understanding of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory in important ways but also establishes significant links between these writers and contemporary French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gerhard Richter is a leading visual artist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804756163
• ISBN 13: 9780804756167
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible