Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing
(Part of the Rethinking Theory Series)
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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: Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0810117746
ISBN13:9780810117747
Release Date:August 2000
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Length:150 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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