| Description |
1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought |
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Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Contents |
Constructivism, mathematics, and the space of history -- The eschatological limit: spatial form in Karl Barth's dialectical theology -- The arc of history: Franz Rosenzweig's figures of time and eternity -- Temporal exterritoriality: Siegfried Kracauer and the shape of history -- Images without end: Robert Musil's narrative ruptures -- Epilogue: the ends of modernism |
| Summary |
"The book shows how German-language modernist writers Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musil reimagined history and the end of time using the spatial forms of non-Euclidean geometry and modernist mathematics, offering alternatives to the historicist paradigm of linear time guided by teleology"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2023) |
| Subject |
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968 fast |
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Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966 fast |
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Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 fast |
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Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929 fast |
| Subject |
Time in literature.
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Mathematics in literature.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Europe, German-speaking
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
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Mathematics in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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Time in literature
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German-speaking Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023001991 |
| ISBN |
150177283X |
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9781501772849 |
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1501772848 |
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9781501772832 |
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