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This work includes readings of Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin: two poets, a novelist, a philosopher and a literary-cultural theorist. Other than literary-philosophical issues, the text concerns history, politics and high culture.
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Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing (Rethinking Theory)
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Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing
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