LEADER 04098oam 22007334a 450 001 9910462694903321 005 20210915034619.0 010 $a0-8014-6738-1 010 $a0-8014-6739-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467394 035 $a(CKB)2670000000417525 035 $a(EBL)3138498 035 $a(OCoLC)857080722 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000950246 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11577443 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950246 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11003548 035 $a(PQKB)10729778 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001517316 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138498 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28719 035 $a(DE-B1597)478614 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938902 035 $a(OCoLC)979753340 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467394 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138498 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10735568 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681767 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000417525 100 $a20130329d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInconceivable Effects$eEthics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film /$fMartin Blumenthal-Barby 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Library,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013. 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 225 0 $aSignale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-50485-7 311 $a0-8014-7812-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"The odium of doubtfulness" : or, the vicissitudes of Arendt's metaphorical thinking -- Why does Hannah Arendt lie? : or, the vicissitudes of imagination -- "A peculiar apparatus" : Kafka's thanatopoetics -- A strike of rhetoric : Benjamin's paradox of justice -- Pernicious bastardizations : Benjamin's ethics of pure violence -- The return of the human : Germany in autumn -- A politics of enmity : Mu?ller's Germania death in Berlin. 330 $aIn Inconceivable Effects, Martin Blumenthal-Barby reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ways of viewing the modern world-including Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, the directors of Germany in Autumn, and Heiner Mueller-these essays furnish a cultural base for contemporary discussions of totalitarian domination, lying and politics, the relation between law and body, the relation between law and justice, the question of violence, and our ways of conceptualizing "the human." A consideration of ethics is central to the book, but ethics in a general, philosophical sense is not the primary subject here; instead, Blumenthal-Barby suggests that whatever understanding of the ethical one has is always contingent upon a particular mode of presentation (Darstellung), on particular aesthetic qualities and features of media. Whatever there is to be said about ethics, it is always bound to certain forms of saying, certain ways of telling, certain modes of narration. That modes of presentation differ across genres and media goes without saying; that such differences are intimately linked with the question of the ethical emerges with heightened urgency in this book. 410 0$aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 606 $aEthics in motion pictures 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aEthics$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGerman literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthics in motion pictures. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aEthics$xHistory 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a830.9/353 700 $aBlumenthal-Barby$b Martin$01022382 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462694903321 996 $aInconceivable Effects$92428392 997 $aUNINA