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Thought-Images - Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Hardcover)
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Thought-Images - Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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In this book, Gerhard Richter explores the aesthetic and political
ramifications of the literary genre of the Denkbild, or
thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish
writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth
century: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and
Siegfried Kracauer. The Denkbild is a poetic mode of writing, a
brief snapshot-in-prose that stages the interrelation of literary,
philosophical, political, and cultural insights. Richter's careful
analysis of the linguistic characteristics of this mode of writing
sheds new light on pivotal concerns of modernity, including the
fractured cityscape, philosophical problems of modern music, the
experience of exiled homelessness, and the disaster of Auschwitz.
Thought-Images not only reorients our understanding of the
Frankfurt School of Critical Theory in important ways but also
establishes significant links between these writers and
contemporary French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida.
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