Totality and the Sublime in Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of Resistance: A Proletarian Phenomenology - Couverture souple

Cottier, Nigel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3639058607 ISBN 13 : 9783639058604

Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Synopsis

In this work Nigel Cottier presents a Marxist interpretation which, drawing on Kant's concept of the sublime, simultaneously illuminates those aspects of Weiss's novel that precipitate a crisis of representation. In an effort to "mimic" Weiss' cubist writing style, Cottier introduces a juxtaposition of heterogeneous but complementary points of view that uncovers the contradictions embedded in the social practices of a proletarian resistance movement that, while pointing to something new, contains the authoritarian, bureaucratic, and patriarchal stamp of the old social order within itself. Cottier makes reference to political and aesthetic concepts delineated by Marx, Lukacs, Brecht, and Benjamin to demonstrate how Weiss' critical appropriation of the historical avant-garde enables him to bridge the gap between art and the industrial labor process, on the one hand, and the artist and the worker, on the other. This philosophical engagement with a novel that has been variously lauded as "the book of the century" and "the national epic of Germany" will be essential reading for anyone interested in post-Holocaust literature and philosophy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nigel Cottier was born in London, England, was educated in the USA, and currently lives in Southwest Germany. The above monograph on Peter Weiss' "The Aesthetics of Resistance" is based on the dissertation he wrote for the University of Oregon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3639058607
• ISBN 13: 9783639058604
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible