Lost in Time: Locating the Stranger in German Modernity

by June J. Hwang

June J. Hwang's provocative Lost in Time explores discourses of timelessness in the works of central figures of German modernity such as Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Helmuth Plessner, as well as those of Alfred D blin, Joseph Roth, and Hugo Bettauer. Hwang argues that in the Weimar Republic the move toward ahistoricization is itself a historical phenomenon, one that can be understood by exploring the intersections...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810133253
• ISBN13: 9780810133259
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"