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UNINA9910780419003321 |
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Autore |
Cobley Evelyn |
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Titolo |
Temptations of Faust : the logic of fascism and postmodern archaeologies of modernity / / Evelyn Cobley |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
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©2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-02280-6 |
9786612022807 |
1-4426-8044-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (322 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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National socialism |
Fascism - Philosophy |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Neo-romantic roots of German fascism -- Organic unity and the privileging of reason: Hegel and Beethoven -- Fascist undercurrents: appeals to authenticity and the privileging of reason -- Breakthrough into atonality (or postmodernism) -- Fascism and atonality (or postmodern play) -- Decentred totalities: fascism, capitalism, postmodernism. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Temptations of Faust is a theoretical analysis of the conceptual paradigms that allowed German fascism to emerge in a highly civilized nation. Analyzing these paradigms through the dual lens of Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, his self-confessed parable of fascism about the avant-garde composer Adrian Leverknhn, and Theodor W. Adorno's Philosophy of Modern Music, this cultural study draws on aesthetic, sociohistorical, political, and philosophical discourses to conclude that German fascism is at once continuous and discontinuous with the emancipatory ambitions of modernity. Drawing on Adorno's sociohistorical critique of avant-garde music, Cobley connects |
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