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Hardcover Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing Book

ISBN: 0810117746

ISBN13: 9780810117747

Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing

(Part of the Rethinking Theory Series)

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In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years: Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately...

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