Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life

by Gerhard Richter

Book Overview

In this book, Gerhard Richter explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of the Denkbild, or thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer. The Denkbild is a poetic mode of writing, a brief snapshot-in-prose that stages the interrelation of literary,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804756163
• ISBN13: 9780804756167
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"