Mysticism as Modernity

Nationalism and the Irrational in Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch

von William Crooke

182 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This work reconsiders the connections between mysticism, nationalism and modernity in twentieth-century German cultures. Disengaging mysticism from occultism, the author creates a new space for reconsidering mysticism’s links to larger structures of modernity already at play at the turn of the century. Rather than dismissing mysticism as a strain of anti-modern irrationalism with troubling links to radical politics such as Nazism, the author reconceptualizes modern mysticism as an unwittingly logical expression of the same compression of time and space created by the emergence of the newspaper, radio, railways and telegraph and reflected in the novels of Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch.

• Reihe: Studies in Modern German Literature
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9783039105793
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.04.2008
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers