The pathos of the real
Subtitle: on the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century
By: Robert Buch
Series: Rethinking theory
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780801897566
Subjects: Pathos; History; Modern Aesthetics; Violence; Cruelty; Reality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: In praise of cruelty: Bataille, Kafka, and ling'-chi; title: Fragmentary description of a disaster: Claude Simon; title: The resistance to pathos and the pathos of resistance: Peter Weiss; title: Medeamachine: the "fallout" of violence in Heiner Müller; title: Epilogue.