Inconceivable effects ethics through twentieth-century German literature, thought, and film /

Blumenthal-Barby, Martin

Inconceivable effects ethics through twentieth-century German literature, thought, and film / [Texte imprimé] : Martin Blumenthal-Barby - Ithaca ; New York : Cornell University Press, Cornell University Library, 2013 - 1 vol. (XXXI-188 p.) ; 24 cm - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought . - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought (Cornell University Press, Ithaca) .

Notes bibliogr.

"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

978-0-8014-7812-3

German literature / 20th century / History and criticism Ethics / Germany / History / 20th century Ethics in literature Ethics in motion pictures

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