Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader (signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation)

Synopsis

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. With the aim of introducing Kluge's heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge's most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.

Copyright:

2019

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781501739231

Related ISBNs:

9781501739217, 9781501739200, 9781501739224

Publisher:

Cornell University Press

Date of Addition:

05/10/20

Copyrighted By:

Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts

Reading Age:

18 and up

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Richard Langston