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Titel:
Primitive Thinking
:
Figuring Alterity in German Modernity
Enthält:
Frontmatter
Contents
Chapter 1 The Presence of the 'Primitive': An Introduction
Part One: Figures of 'Primitive Thinking'
Chapter 2 The Ethnological Paradigm of the 'Primitive'
Chapter 3 The Child as 'Primitive'
Chapter 4 Psychopathology in the Paradigm of the 'Primitive'
Part Two: Art, Language, and 'Primitive Thinking'
Chapter 5 The Origins of Art
Chapter 6 'Primitive Language' - Theories of Metaphor
Part Three: 'Primitive Thinking' in German Literary Modernism
Chapter 7 The "Tropological Nature" of the Poet in Müller and Benn
Chapter 8 A Sister in Madness: Figures of 'Primitive Thinking' in Robert Musil
Chapter 9 The Dialectical Turn of 'Primitive Thinking': The Child and Gesture in Walter Benjamin
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Beschreibung:
This book explores modernity under the spell of the 'primitive.' Proponents of the ideology of progress as well as critics of civilization, utopians dreaming of a re-enchanted existence and supporters and opponents of nascent fascism alike were all profoundly shaped by the phantasm of the ,primitive', a central element of which, this book argues, is the notion of 'primitive thought'. This comprises a distinct mode of thinking - characterized by turns as magical, mythical, mystical, or prelogical - that allows for a fundamentally different way of relating to the world. It was associated not only with indigenous cultures, but also with other figures of alterity, such as children and the mentally ill. The book examines the discourse on 'primitive thinking' in the social sciences, writings on art and language, and - most centrally - literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn, and Robert Müller