Inconceivable effects [electronic resource] : ethics through twentieth-century German literature, thought, and film / Martin Blumenthal-Barby.
Series: Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)Publication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2013.Description: xxxi, 188 p. : illISBN:- 9780801478123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801467394 (e-book)
- 830.9/353 23
- PT405 .B5384 2013eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The odium of doubtfulness" : or, the vicissitudes of Arendt's metaphorical thinking -- Why does Hannah Arendt lie? : or, the vicissitudes of imagination -- "A peculiar apparatus" : Kafka's thanatopoetics -- A strike of rhetoric : Benjamin's paradox of justice -- Pernicious bastardizations : Benjamin's ethics of pure violence -- The return of the human : Germany in autumn -- A politics of enmity : M�uller's Germania death in Berlin.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.