Physical Description
xxxvi, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : Weimar modernism
Ernst Bloch's theory of nonsimultaneity
Berlin Dada, Carl Schmitt, Georg Lukács, and the critique of contemplation
From contemplation to distraction : the culture of inflation and the inflation of culture
The art of disappearance : Adorno's aesthetics of modernism and Alban Berg's music
From distraction to mobilization : Ernst Jünger, photography, and the imperial gaze of the worker
From mobilization to interruption : dialectic at a standstill or Walter Benjamin on the politicization of the aesthetic in Brecht's epic theater.
ISBN
0739107771
9780739107775 (alk. paper)
0739110063 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780739110065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index.
Introduction : Weimar modernism -- Ernst Bloch's theory of nonsimultaneity -- Berlin Dada, Carl Schmitt, Georg Lukács, and the critique of contemplation -- From contemplation to distraction : the culture of inflation and the inflation of culture -- The art of disappearance : Adorno's aesthetics of modernism and Alban Berg's music -- From distraction to mobilization : Ernst Jünger, photography, and the imperial gaze of the worker -- From mobilization to interruption : dialectic at a standstill or Walter Benjamin on the politicization of the aesthetic in Brecht's epic theater.
