LEADER 03524nam 22005415 450 001 996487160603316 005 20231110225149.0 010 $a3-11-069509-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110695090 035 $a(CKB)5700000000110448 035 $a(DE-B1597)545960 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110695090 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7076310 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7076310 035 $a(OCoLC)1343249399 035 $a(EXLCZ)995700000000110448 100 $a20220830h20222022 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPrimitive Thinking $eFiguring Alterity in German Modernity /$fNicola Gess 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $cDe Gruyter, $d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 396 p.) 225 0 $aParadigms : Literature and the Human Sciences ,$x2195-2205 ;$v13 311 $a3-11-069468-9 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tChapter 1 The Presence of the ?Primitive?: An Introduction -- $tPart One: Figures of ?Primitive Thinking? -- $tChapter 2 The Ethnological Paradigm of the ?Primitive? -- $tChapter 3 The Child as ?Primitive? -- $tChapter 4 Psychopathology in the Paradigm of the ?Primitive? -- $tPart Two: Art, Language, and ?Primitive Thinking? -- $tChapter 5 The Origins of Art -- $tChapter 6 ?Primitive Language? ? Theories of Metaphor -- $tPart Three: ?Primitive Thinking? in German Literary Modernism -- $tChapter 7 The ?Tropological Nature? of the Poet in Müller and Benn -- $tChapter 8 A Sister in Madness: Figures of ?Primitive Thinking? in Robert Musil -- $tChapter 9 The Dialectical Turn of ?Primitive Thinking?: The Child and Gesture in Walter Benjamin -- $tEpilogue -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book explores modernity under the spell of the ?primitive.? Proponents of the ideology of progress as well as critics of civilization, utopians dreaming of a re-enchanted existence and supporters and opponents of nascent fascism alike were all profoundly shaped by the phantasm of the ?primitive', a central element of which, this book argues, is the notion of ?primitive thought?. This comprises a distinct mode of thinking ? characterized by turns as magical, mythical, mystical, or prelogical ? that allows for a fundamentally different way of relating to the world. It was associated not only with indigenous cultures, but also with other figures of alterity, such as children and the mentally ill. The book examines the discourse on ?primitive thinking? in the social sciences, writings on art and language, and ? most centrally ? literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn, and Robert Müller. 410 0$aParadigms 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / German$2bisacsh 610 $aPimitivism. 610 $aRobert Musil. 610 $aWalter Benjamin. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $aliterature. 610 $amodernism. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. 700 $aGess$b Nicola, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01255066 702 $aButler$b Erik, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aSolomon$b Susan, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996487160603316 996 $aPrimitive Thinking$92910062 997 $aUNISA