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Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Gerhard Richter

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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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  • Title Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life
  • Author Gerhard Richter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
  • Date 2007-06-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780804756174 / 0804756171
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Critical Theory
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature and society, German literature - 20th century - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 830.935

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 284

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.

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