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Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Cultural Memory in the Present)
ThoughtImages Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life - Cultural Memory in the Present
Author: Gerhard Richter
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 Denkbi...  more » 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.
ISBN-13: 9780804756167
ISBN-10: 0804756163
Publication Date: 6/8/2007
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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