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Inconceivable effects ethics through Twentieth-Century German literature, thought, and film

Title
Inconceivable effects [electronic resource] : ethics through Twentieth-Century German literature, thought, and film / Martin Blumenthal-Barby.
Author
Blumenthal-Barby, Martin.
Publication
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library : Cornell University Library, 2013.

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Description
1 online resource (xxxi, 188 pages) : illustrations.
Series Statement
Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Uniform Title
Inconceivable effects (Online)
Alternative Title
Inconceivable effects (Online)
Subject
  • German literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Ethics > Germany > History > 20th century
  • Ethics in literature
  • Ethics in motion pictures
Note
  • "A Signale Book"--Title page.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2013013210
OCLC
ssj0000950246
Author
Blumenthal-Barby, Martin.
Title
Inconceivable effects [electronic resource] : ethics through Twentieth-Century German literature, thought, and film / Martin Blumenthal-Barby.
Imprint
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library : Cornell University Library, 2013.
Series
Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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