Inconceivable Effects: Ethics Through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film

by Martin Blumenthal-Barby

In Inconceivable Effects, Martin Blumenthal-Barby reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ways of viewing the modern world--including Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, the directors of Germany in Autumn, and Heiner Mueller--these essays furnish a cultural base for contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080147812X
• ISBN13: 9780801478123
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher