Bureaucratic Fanatics : : Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization / / Benjamin Lewis Robinson.
Is justice only achievable by means of bureaucratization or might it first arrive with the end of bureaucracy? Bureaucratic Fanatics shows how this ever more contentious question in contemporary politics belongs to the political-theological underpinnings of bureaucratization itself. At the end of th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Paradigms : Literature and the Human Sciences ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Bureaucratic Fanaticism
- 2. A New Kind of Schwärmer: Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas
- 3. Architecture of the Office: Melville’s Bartleby
- 4. Abstraction of the Earth: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
- 5. Poverty of Agency: Conrad’s The Secret Agent
- 6. State of Embarrassment: Kafka’s In the Penal Colony
- 7. Society of Security: Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
- Epilogue: Guerrilla / Gardener Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K
- Bibliography
- Index