| Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader Contributor(s): Kluge, Alexander (Author), Langston, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501739204 ISBN-13: 9781501739200 Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Literary Criticism | European - German - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 838.914 |
| LCCN: 2019944779 |
| Series: Signale-Transfer: German Thought in Translation |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 6" W x 9" (2.15 lbs) 552 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. With the aim of introducing Kluge's heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge's most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kluge, Alexander: - Richard Langston is Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Visions of Violence and translator of History and Obstinacy.Langston, Richard: - Richard Langston is an Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Visions of Violence, a co-editor of the Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch, the lead translator of Kluge and Negt's History and Obstinacy, and the author of a forthcoming monograph on Negt and Kluge entitled Dark Matter, in Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity. |