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Mysticism as Modernity

Nationalism and the Irrational in Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch

by William Crooke (Author)
©2008 Monographs 182 Pages

Summary

This work reconsiders the connections between mysticism, nationalism and modernity in twentieth-century German cultures. Disengaging mysticism from occultism, the author creates a new space for reconsidering mysticism’s links to larger structures of modernity already at play at the turn of the century. Rather than dismissing mysticism as a strain of anti-modern irrationalism with troubling links to radical politics such as Nazism, the author reconceptualizes modern mysticism as an unwittingly logical expression of the same compression of time and space created by the emergence of the newspaper, radio, railways and telegraph and reflected in the novels of Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch.

Details

Pages
182
Publication Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039105793
Language
English
Keywords
Mystizismus (Motiv) Nationalismus (Motiv) Hesse, Hermann Demian Nationalism Space-Time Logic Irrationalism Individual to Collective
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2008. 182 pp.
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Biographical notes

William Crooke (Author)

The Author: William Crooke holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught German Literature and Media Studies at the Catholic University of America and is currently Assistant Professor of German and French at Eastern Tennessee State University. In addition to German literature, his research interests include German film, Italian women writers, and Francophone African literature.

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