Primitive Thinking Figuring Alterity in German Modernity

• Auteur principal: Gess, Nicola (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
• Collection: PARADIGMS
• Sujets: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; General studies; Science: general issues; Primitivism; literature; modernism; Walter Benjamin; Robert Musil; anthropology
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Résumé

This book examines the discourse on 'primitive thinking' in early 20th century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and - most　centrally - literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn and Robert Müller, focusing on three figures of alterity prominent in European primitivism:　indigenous cultures, children, and the mentally ill.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (396 p.)

ISBN

9783110695090
9783110694680
9783110695151

Accès

Open Access