Blumenthal-Barby, Martin.

Inconceivable effects ethics through twentieth-century German literature, thought, and film / [electronic resource] : Martin Blumenthal-Barby. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2013. - xxxi, 188 p. : ill. - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought . - Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The odium of doubtfulness" : or, the vicissitudes of Arendt's metaphorical thinking -- Why does Hannah Arendt lie? : or, the vicissitudes of imagination -- "A peculiar apparatus" : Kafka's thanatopoetics -- A strike of rhetoric : Benjamin's paradox of justice -- Pernicious bastardizations : Benjamin's ethics of pure violence -- The return of the human : Germany in autumn -- A politics of enmity : Muller's Germania death in Berlin.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780801467394 (electronic bk.)




German literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Ethics--History--Germany--20th century.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics in motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PT405 / .B5384 2013

830.9/353