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Michael André Bernstein

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Description:In Five Portraits one of the most acute and interesting critical thinkers of our time offers essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years. The result is a remarkable portrait of a cultural moment of crisisa time when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture deeply fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately put themselves and their work at the imaginative center of the storm.Five Portraits includes compelling readings of Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin: two poets, a novelist, a philosopher, and a literary-cultural theorist. Though many readers are familiar with these names, few, apart from specialists, possess an in-depth knowledge of them all. Bernstein's essays, written in elegant and jargon-free prose, can stand alone; but together they create a vivid image of a cultural epoch whose aspirations and torments continue to shape the world we inhabit today.Michael Andre Bernstein's concerns are not limited to literary-philosophical issues. The complex relationship among the worlds of politics, history, and high culture is at the heart of Five Portraits. Bernstein shows how the seductive image of inwardness and solitary introspection can, when combined with a will to political power, produce devastation never before dreamed of. What Hitler called the Fuhrerprinzip, the right of the superior being to the unquestioning obedience of others, depends on a culturally shared mythologizing of the genius's special inwardness, and the charismatic power of such a claim is inextricably bound up with the history of modernism itself. It is that history, its inspiring triumphs as well as its monstrous excesses, that Five Portraits lets us seefinally, clearly, in all its fascinating detail.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing (Rethinking Theory). To get started finding Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing (Rethinking Theory), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In Five Portraits one of the most acute and interesting critical thinkers of our time offers essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years. The result is a remarkable portrait of a cultural moment of crisisa time when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture deeply fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately put themselves and their work at the imaginative center of the storm.Five Portraits includes compelling readings of Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin: two poets, a novelist, a philosopher, and a literary-cultural theorist. Though many readers are familiar with these names, few, apart from specialists, possess an in-depth knowledge of them all. Bernstein's essays, written in elegant and jargon-free prose, can stand alone; but together they create a vivid image of a cultural epoch whose aspirations and torments continue to shape the world we inhabit today.Michael Andre Bernstein's concerns are not limited to literary-philosophical issues. The complex relationship among the worlds of politics, history, and high culture is at the heart of Five Portraits. Bernstein shows how the seductive image of inwardness and solitary introspection can, when combined with a will to political power, produce devastation never before dreamed of. What Hitler called the Fuhrerprinzip, the right of the superior being to the unquestioning obedience of others, depends on a culturally shared mythologizing of the genius's special inwardness, and the charismatic power of such a claim is inextricably bound up with the history of modernism itself. It is that history, its inspiring triumphs as well as its monstrous excesses, that Five Portraits lets us seefinally, clearly, in all its fascinating detail.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing (Rethinking Theory). To get started finding Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing (Rethinking Theory), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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