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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei is Professor of Philosophy, Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy, and a member of the Literary Studies Faculty at Fordham University in New York City, where she teaches Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the Philosophy of Literature. She completed graduate studies at Oxford University (DPhil, German Literature; MSt, European Literature); Columbia University (MFA, poetry); and Villanova University (PhD, MA, philosophy). Her previous books include Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language; The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature; and After the Palace Burns, which won The Paris Review Prize in poetry. She is also co-translator of Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religious Life. Klappentext Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei presents striking new readings of the exotic in major German writers such as Kafka! Mann! Brecht! and Hesse! alongside the thought of Nietzsche! Freud! Simmel! and Expressionist aesthetics. She shows how the evocation of exotic spaces serves to reflect on central problems of European modernity and the modern self. Zusammenfassung Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei presents striking new readings of the exotic in major German writers such as Kafka, Mann, Brecht, and Hesse, alongside the thought of Nietzsche, Freud, Simmel, and Expressionist aesthetics. She shows how the evocation of exotic spaces serves to reflect on central problems of European modernity and the modern self. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The 'Exotic' and the Geographical Imagination in Modern German Literature; 1: Fernweh! Travel! and the Re-enchantment of the World in Hofmannsthal! Dauthendey! and Hesse; 2: Infectious-Erotic Topographies in Thomas Mann and Zweig; 3: Intimate Elsewheres: The Imagination of Distance and Vastness in Kafka; 4: Inner Depths: Topographies of Primal Consciousness in Benn! Musil! and Kubin; 5: Primitive Modernity and the Urban Jungle in Brecht; Conclusion; Bibliography ...
