Redner Harry In the Beginning Was the Deed: Reflections on the Passage of Faust 9780520303140

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Автор: Redner Harry
Название: In the Beginning Was the Deed: Reflections on the Passage of Faust
ISBN: 9780520303140
Издательство: Wiley
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Литературоведение: Классическое, раннего, высокого и позднего средневековья до 1500 г.

ISBN-10: 0520303148
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 342
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 30.10.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 20
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Now that the collective death of mankind has become a possibility, no other thought can remain unimpaired. Harry Redner traces historically the onset of this acute state of Nihilism from what might be called the Faustian revolution, symbolized by Fausts pronouncement In the beginning was the Deed. Redner reflects on the passage of the three main Fausts, from Marlowes to Goethes to Thomas Manns, and this reflection serves as the dramatic metaphor for a review of the relationship of Progress to Nihilism in modern civilization. Starting with an exposition of the key Faustian thinkers, Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, the book proceeds by examining the dominant modern ideas on Man, Time, and Nihilism with reference to Foucault, Derrida, and Althusser. Its focus in this is firmly fixed on Language, which is a key preoccupation of all these thinkers but has not yet been taken far enough to afford a basis for the explanation of fundamental changes in civilization. Language in its creative and destructive functions, as constituting both the conscious and unconscious of a culture, is reconceived so as to account for the hidden link between Progress and Nihilism. The author then examines sociologically the dominant aspects of Progress in terms of the ideas of Weber, Adorno, and Marcuse on Technology, Subjectivity, and Activism. Finally, an extensive literary study of the three main Fausts concludes with a coda on the future of music. An epilogue draws some ethical and political conclusions for action. Dramatic in form, In the Beginning Was the Deed is lucid and direct in style, tinged with a wry humor demanded by the gravity of the subject matter. In its attempt to represent Man in the nuclear age and to reflect on that representation, it is a work that seeks to comprehend our time and to act on that comprehension. This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

In the Beginning Was the Deed: Reflections on the Passage of Faust, Redner Harry