Inconceivable Effects : Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film /

Inconceivable Effects : Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film / / Martin Blumenthal-Barby.

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In Inconceivable Effects, Martin Blumenthal-Barby reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ways of viewing the modern world-including Hannah Arendt, Fra...

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Blumenthal-Barby, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Library,, 2013.
©2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • "The odium of doubtfulness" : or, the vicissitudes of Arendt's metaphorical thinking
  • Why does Hannah Arendt lie? : or, the vicissitudes of imagination
  • "A peculiar apparatus" : Kafka's thanatopoetics
  • A strike of rhetoric : Benjamin's paradox of justice
  • Pernicious bastardizations : Benjamin's ethics of pure violence
  • The return of the human : Germany in autumn
  • A politics of enmity : Müller's Germania death in Berlin.

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