Pathos of the Real - On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Robert Buch received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University. He was assistant professor in Germanic studies at the University of Chicago and currently teaches in the Department of German at the University of Pittsburgh. Klappentext In dialogue with a diverse group of thinkers, from Erich Auerbach and Aby Warburg to Alain Badiou and Jacques Lacan, The Pathos of the Real advances an innovative new framework for rethinking the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung In dialogue with a diverse group of thinkers, from Erich Auerbach and Aby Warburg to Alain Badiou and Jacques Lacan, The Pathos of the Real advances an innovative new framework for rethinking the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Buch, Robert (Morven Brown 249 -- Fass) Buch
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2011
• EAN: 9780801897566
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9756-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Hardcover); Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Hardcover)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies