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Author: Alexander Kluge ,
Richard Langston
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 1.361kg
ISBN: 9781501739200
ISBN 10: 1501739204
Pages: 552
Publication Date: 15 September 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
Interest in Alexander Kluge's astonishingly varied production has exploded in the English-Language world. This volume makes available for the first time a judicious selection of his most important essays and shows Kluge the essayist is no less remarkable than Kluge the filmmaker, Kluge the author of fictions, Kluge the theorist, or Kluge the media visionary. -- Michael Jennings, Princeton University, coauthor of <I>Walter Benjamin</I> Alexander Kluge's colossal oeuvre sets out to shepherd both Theodor W. Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's Frankfurt School into the twenty-first century. Richard Langston's anthology provides English-language readers with an essential compendium containing five decades of Kluge's reflections on Critical Theory's poetical potential. -- Rainer Stollmann, University of Bremen Richard Langston has assembled a remarkable collection of essays and interviews by Alexander Kluge that introduces English-speaking readers to a different Kluge than they are familiar with. The excellent translations capture the incisiveness, range, and wit of one of the most intelligent, prolific, and creative minds in contemporary Europeean history. -- Christopher Pavsek, Simon Fraser University, author of <I>The Utopia of Film</I>
Richard Langston has assembled a remarkable collection of essays and interviews by Alexander Kluge that introduces English-speaking readers to a different Kluge than they are familiar with. The excellent translations capture the incisiveness, range, and wit of one of the most intelligent, prolific, and creative minds in contemporary Europeean history. -- Christopher Pavsek, Simon Fraser University, author of <I>The Utopia of Film</I> Alexander Kluge's colossal oeuvre sets out to shepherd both Theodor W. Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's Frankfurt School into the twenty-first century. Richard Langston's anthology provides English-language readers with an essential compendium containing five decades of Kluge's reflections on Critical Theory's poetical potential. -- Rainer Stollmann, University of Bremen Interest in Alexander Kluge's astonishingly varied production has exploded in the English-Language world. This volume makes available for the first time a judicious selection of his most important essays and shows Kluge the essayist is no less remarkable than Kluge the filmmaker, Kluge the author of fictions, Kluge the theorist, or Kluge the media visionary. -- Michael Jennings, Princeton University, coauthor of <I>Walter Benjamin</I>
Author Information
Richard Langston is Professor of German Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Visions of Violence and translator of History and Obstinacy.
