Five portraits : Modernity and the imagination in twentieth-century German writing / Michael André Bernstein.

Author
Bernstein, Michael André, 1947- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2000.
Description
x, 150 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Rethinking theory. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment of cultural crisis - a time when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately put themselves and their work at the center of the storm."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-141) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Five Portraits and the Modernist Masterpiece
    • Rainer Maria Rilke: The Book of Inwardness
    • Robert Musil: Precision and Soul
    • Martin Heidegger: Judgment Terminal and Interminable
    • Walter Benjamin: Apocalypse and Memory
    • Paul Celan: Radiance That Will Not Comfort.
    ISBN
    0810117746
    OCLC
    45191698
    RCP
    C - S
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