Glass Shards

Echoes of a Message in a Bottle

331 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Adorno characterized Critical Theory as a message in a bottle in 1940 when the exiled Frankfurt School's sphere of influence was an ocean away from the catastrophes of fascism it sought to fight. Turning Adorno’s metaphor on its head some six decades later, Kluge likens his creative method in the interview with Oskar Negt that opens the second volume of the Kluge-Jahrbuch to echoes of light refracted through a bottle: “I can also see something by looking through shards of glass,” he explains. Deploying this turn of phrase as its point of departure, this issue of the Jahrbuch devotes its attention first to Kluge’s theory work written with Negt, its roots in and adaptation of the Frankfurt School tradition as well as its indebtedness to other schools of thought. In the remainder of the volume, scholars working in five different disciplines across the humanities query Kluge’s ways of seeing in film, television and literature.

• Reihe: Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch
• ISBN: 9783847104209
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.10.2015
• Genre: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Herausgegeben von: Richard Langston
• Herausgegeben von: Andrew Bowie, Matthew D. Miller, Christopher Pavsek, Lutz Koepnick, Bert-Christoph Streckhardt, Grégory Cormann, Jeremy Hamers, Gregory H. Williams, Philipp Ekardt, Kathrin Lämmle, Paul Rabinow, Jens Birkmeyer, Martin Brady, Wieland Hoban, Thomas Combrink, Gunther Martens, Vincent Pauval, Christian Schulte, Rainer Stollmann