Cosmic miniatures and the future sense : Alexander Kluge's 21st-century literary experiments in German culture and narrative form /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2017]
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ;
v. 22. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : hope in time
- Cosmic miniatures and critical horizons : exercising the future sense
- Heliotropic horizons with and Beyond Benjamin
- Heliotropic narrative with and Beyond Adorno
- Something missing and counterfactual hope
- Gap aesthetics and "ways out"
- Utopian longing and narrative orientation
- Adorno's "heliotrope" and oscillating perspective
- Kluge's flawed beauty and unnatural narration
- Kluge's future narrative: "Saturday in Utopia"
- Extraterrestrial speculations with and Beyond Kant
- Global miniatures and marxist horizons : conjunctions in narrative time
- Permanent revolution
- Global connectivity
- Revolutionary subjectivity
- Counter-catastrophic futurity
- German miniatures and perspective horizons : recalibrating historical voice
- Persons one can lose and those one can gain
- The six-year-old within me, the starry sky above me, and narrative voice
- Long arcs of cosmic formation and the narrative trajectory of first-person pronouns
- Werner Scholem and the life writing of the future sense
- Making time : zeit-zeugen, holocaust history, and co-operative voice
- Postscript : futurity as fairy tale? From flaschenpost to nachricht and more
- Works cited
- Alphabetical list of kluge titles discussed, in German and English
- Index of persons
- Index of works
- Index of terms.