Research Catalog

Title

Inconceivable effects : ethics through twentieth-century German literature, thought, and film / Martin Blumenthal-Barby.

Author

Blumenthal-Barby, Martin

Publication

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2013.

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Details

Description

xxxi, 188 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought

Uniform Title

Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"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.

Call Number

JFE 14-2339

ISBN

• 9780801478123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 080147812X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2013013210
• 40022594577

OCLC

822895857

Author

Blumenthal-Barby, Martin, author.

Title

Inconceivable effects : ethics through twentieth-century German literature, thought, and film / Martin Blumenthal-Barby.

Publisher

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought

Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40022594577

Research Call Number

JFE 14-2339