{"product_id":"karl-kraus-and-the-discourse-of-modernity-9780810141636","title":"Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReconsiders the literary works of the Viennese satirist, journalist, and playwright Karl Kraus (1874-1936). Ari Linden reads Kraus's work both on its own terms and alongside philosophy and critical theory, yielding a portrait of Kraus as an irrepressible figure in the modernist tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAri Linden's \u003ci\u003eKarl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e offers an illuminating view onto Kraus's three major creative works, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Mankind, Cloudcuckooland\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Third Walpurgisnacht\u003c\/i\u003e. Linden's principal contribution is an original analysis of Kraus's use of language in its relation to his contemporary reality-and in particular World War I, the creation of the Austrian Republic in the 1920s, and the era of National Socialism.\" - Michael W. Jennings, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin: A Critical Life \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Ari Linden's \u003ci\u003eKarl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling portrait of Kraus as a cultural critic in dark times, whose work runs parallel to other major figures of modernism. Linden offers measured assessments of Kraus's successes and limitations, his power and powerlessness, and what they offered, and continue to offer, to later generations of readers and critics.\" - Kirk Wetters, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Opinion System: Impasses of the Public Sphere from Hobbes to Habermas\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Enormously erudite and enviably conversant with critical theory, Ari Linden convincingly argues that modernism cannot be fully understood without taking account of the towering - but still often neglected - figure of Karl Kraus.\" - William Collins Donahue, author of \u003ci\u003eHolocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's \"Nazi Novels\" and Their Films\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Toward a Krausian Theory of Modernity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Reciting War: The Last Days of Mankind (1915-22)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. On Birds, Wars, and Fragile Republics: Cloudcuckooland (1923)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \"Where Illegality Becomes the Law\": The Third Walpurgis Night (1933\/52)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. \"A Monstrous Non-Entity\": Kierkegaard, Kraus, and Benjamin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. \"Origin is the Goal\": Adorno and Kraus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoda: \"Shadows Cast Bodies\": Kraus and Posterity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534984806743,"sku":"9780810141636","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810141636.jpg?v=1755858462","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/karl-kraus-and-the-discourse-of-modernity-9780810141636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}