Karl Kraus 1933

Citing Violence, Inciting Critique

Gal Hertz, Ron Mieczkowski, Ari Linden

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111364803
• Subtopic: Jewish Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The book provides new perspectives on the historical context surrounding Kraus's writings during the Third Reich as well as an analysis of the Third Walpurgnis Night. The contributions place Kraus's work in dialogue with a broader spectrum of critical voices, including Adorno and Arendt. Revisiting Kraus from these new perspectives contributes to a better understanding of this major intellectual of the first half of the 20th century.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Kraus 1933 – Citing Violence, Inciting Critique
• Translator’s introduction to Karl Kraus’s “Language”
• Karl Kraus’s “Language” and National Socialism
• Die Sprache „der Richter und Henker“ und der Genitiv bei Karl Kraus. Vom Paradigma der „grammatischen Methode“
• Poetry and Truth in the Third Reich – Karl Kraus’s Ethical Campaign 1933
• Kraus’s Poetics of Quotation in Times of Despair
• Jargon, Journalism, and Heideggerese: Adorno and Kraus
• “A Contest Between Words and Deeds”: Karl Kraus and Hannah Arendt on Proto-Totalitarian “Wahrlügen”
• Karl Kraus: Literature, Halacha, a Jewish Joke
• „Wir Anhänger des Geistes sind in einer tragisch-komischen Position …“ – Biografische Perspektiven auf Karl Kraus zwischen 1933 und 1936