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Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Ari Linden's Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity reconsiders
the literary works of the Viennese satirist, journalist, and
playwright Karl Kraus (1874-1936). Linden reads Kraus's work both
on its own terms and alongside philosophy and critical theory,
yielding a portrait of Kraus as an irrepressible figure in the
modernist tradition. In doing so, Linden draws a more robust image
of German modernism itself. Combining close readings with
intellectual history, Linden shows how Kraus's two major literary
achievements (The Last Days of Mankind and The Third Walpurgis
Night) and a lesser-known play (Cloudcuckooland) address the
political catastrophes of the first third of Europe's twentieth
century-from World War I to the rise of fascism. Kraus's central
insight, Linden argues, is that the medial representations of such
events have produced less an informed audience than one
increasingly unmoved by mass violence. In the second part of the
book, Linden explores this insight as he sees it inflected in SOren
Kierkegaard, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno. This hidden
dialogue, Linden argues, offers us a richer understanding of the
often neglected relationship between satire and critical theory
writ large.
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