Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: Fordham University Press
Title Page, Copyright
Acknowledgments
The writing of this book profited immensely from conversations with my friends and colleagues Michal Ginsburg, Marcus Moseley, Helmut Müller-Sievers, Rainer Rumold, Thomas Schestag, Samuel Weber, and Kirk Wetters. Peter Fenves should receive special recognition. Without his valuable...
Introduction
This study focuses on the obstinate obtrusiveness of what Martin Heidegger calls Zeug, a recalcitrant term that so thoroughly defies translation that only colloquial terms give some handle on what Heidegger is after. Often translated by “equipment,” the term is probably better understood...
One “When Things Move upon Bad Hinges”
Laurence Sterne’s novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767, describes the life of its protagonist as constantly threatened by accidents. “I have been the continual sport of what the world calls Fortune,” Tristram exclaims; “...
Two Annoying Bagatelles
In the fourth part of Truth and Fiction (Dichtung und Wahrheit), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe discusses the relationship between inspiration and the process of writing: I therefore often wished, like one of my predecessors, to get me a leather jerkin made, and to accustom myself...
Three Malicious Objects
On November 29, 1879, the British satirical magazine Punch reported on a recently published article by the German philosopher and poet Friedrich Theodor Vischer. Earlier that month “Herr Vischer, an eminent authority on Art and Aesthetics,” appalled by the obnoxious behavior of a fellow traveler...
Four Igniting Anger
Heimito von Doderer’s 1962 novel The Merowingians or The Total Family (Die Merowinger oder die totale Familie) begins with a scene in the clinical practice of the psychiatrist Professor Dr. Horn. The patient, Dr. Bachmeyer, describes his ailment: “Rage, Professor. I suffer heavy attacks of...
Epilogue
Around 1900, following Julius Robert Mayer’s research on the laws of thermodynamics and his later discovery of processes of ignition, the German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald developed a general theory of energetics. It broadened...
E-ISBN-13: 9780823250516
Print-ISBN-13: 9780823245284
Print-ISBN-10: 0823245284
Page Count: 328
Publication Year: 2012
Edition: Text
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