Thought-Images : Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life

Gerhard Richter

ISBN 10: 0804756163 / ISBN 13: 9780804756167

Published by Stanford University Press Jun 2007, 2007

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thought-Images : Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life
• Publisher: Stanford University Press Jun 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804756163
• ISBN 13: 9780804756167
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 155H x 18D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 499 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Gerhard Richter is Professor of German at the University of
California, Davis, where he also teaches in the Graduate Program in
Critical Theory.