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Primitive thinking- [electronic resource : e-book] : figuring alterity in German Modernity

Uniform Title: Primitives Denken Wilde, Kinder und Wahnsinnige in der literarischen Moderne (Müller, Musil, Benn, Benjamin).. English

서명/저자: Primitive thinking - [electronic resource : e-book] : figuring alterity in German Modernity / Nicola Gess ; translated by Erik Butler and Susan L. Solomon.

초록/해제: 요약 : This 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.