{"product_id":"difference-and-orientation-9781501739217","title":"Difference and Orientation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany''s leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge''s five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the aim of introducing Kluge''s heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, \u003ci\u003eDifference and Orientation\u003c\/i\u003e assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge''s most fundamental statements on l\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard Langston has assembled a remarkable collection of essays and interviews by Alexander Kluge that introduces English-speaking readers to a different Kluge than they are familiar with. The excellent translations capture the incisiveness, range, and wit of one of the most intelligent, prolific, and creative minds in contemporary Europeean history.\" -- Christopher Pavsek, Simon Fraser University, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Utopia of Film\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alexander Kluge's colossal oeuvre sets out to shepherd both Theodor W. Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's Frankfurt School into the twenty-first century. Richard Langston's anthology provides English-language readers with an essential compendium containing five decades of Kluge's reflections on Critical Theory's poetical potential.\" -- Rainer Stollmann, University of Bremen\u003cbr\u003e\"Interest in Alexander Kluge's astonishingly varied production has exploded in the English-Language world. This volume makes available for the first time a judicious selection of his most important essays and shows Kluge the essayist is no less remarkable than Kluge the filmmaker, Kluge the author of fictions, Kluge the theorist, or Kluge the media visionary.\" -- Michael Jennings, Princeton University, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator Information\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgment\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Guardian of Difference: The Essayist Alexander Kluge by Richard Langston, by Richard Langston\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Difference: Heinrich von Kleist (1985)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Storytelling Is the Representation of Differences (2001)\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Peacemaker (2003)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Companions in Now-Time (2007)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Storytelling Means Dissolving Relations (2008)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Theory of Storytelling: Lecture One (2013)\u003cbr\u003e 7. What Is a Metaphor? (2016)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Film\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Word and Film (1965) by Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge, and Wilfried Reinke\u003cbr\u003e 9. Bits of Conversation (1966)\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Realistic Method and the \"Filmic\" (1975)\u003cbr\u003e 11. Film: A Utopia (1983)\u003cbr\u003e 12. A Plan with the Force of a Battleship (2008)\u003cbr\u003e 13. No Farewell to Yesterday: New German Cinema from 1962 to 1981 as Seen from 2011 (2012)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV: From Classical to New Media: Opera, Television, Internet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. An Answer to Two Opera Quotations (1983\/84)\u003cbr\u003e 15. On the Expressions \"Media\" and \"New Media\": A Selection of Keywords (1984)\u003cbr\u003e 16. Medialization: Musealization (1990)\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Opera Machine (2001)\u003cbr\u003e 18. Primitive Diversity (2002)\u003cbr\u003e 19. Planting Gardens in the Data Tsunami (2010)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart V: Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Role of Fantasy (1974)\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Function of the Distorted Angle in the Destructive Intention (1989)\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Political without Its Despair: On the Concept of \"Populism\" (1992)\u003cbr\u003e 23. War (2001)\u003cbr\u003e 24. The Art of Drawing Distinctions (2003)\u003cbr\u003e 25. Critique, Up Close and Personal (2007)\u003cbr\u003e 26. The Actuality of Adorno (2009)\u003cbr\u003e 27. Inventory of a Century: On Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (2013)\u003cbr\u003e 28. An Instance of Internet Telephony over the Himalayas (2016)\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409337622871,"sku":"9781501739217","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501739217.jpg?v=1730506469","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/difference-and-orientation-9781501739217","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}