Kai Evers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kai Evers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kai |
| FAMILY NAME | Evers |
| SIGNATURE | EVERS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance
In this introduction the editors first trace the reception of Peter Weiss's Aesthetics of Resistance in (West) Germany and the United States. Focusing on the relation between politics and aesthetics, some critics characterized this relation as fraught, arguing that the novel's supposedly outdated politics ultimately rendered it obsolete. Others approached the novel as a writing experiment articulating politics and aesthetics in tense but producti…
Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance
Starting from Hannah Arendt's reflections on the openness of the future and the function of promises for political action, this essay offers a new understanding of the political pedagogy at work in The Aesthetics of Resistance. Rather than being narrated by the author's proxy, as much of the novel's reception assumes, Weiss plays subversively with mask narration. The narrator's selective reading of Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa guid…
Risking Gas Warfare: Imperceptible Death and the Future of War in Weimar Culture and Literature
This essay examines how the anticipation of future warfare shaped the interwar period and led to the emergence of a literature of risk in Weimar culture. Having witnessed the introduction of air power and chemical warfare during the First World War, a broad European consensus held that unannounced aerial gassings of cities would decide the next war. After examining how the war scenarios of military strategists placed societies into an unprecedent…
Fantasies, Echoes, and Whispers: The Experience of World War I in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern and Die Ästhetik des Widerstands
The author argues for the previously unexamined significance of World War I in Weiss's oeuvre and for Weiss's unique position in this highly influential literary tradition of imagining war through the figure of an uncommunicative witness to catastrophe. The story of the soldier returning silently from the trenches, unable to communicate the new horror of modern mass warfare, has become a myth of origin of the twentieth century. Weiss's Abschied v…
Monological versus Dialogical Remembrance: Gert Neumann's Novel Anschlag in the Context of the Walser-Bubis Controversy
Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance
In this introduction the editors first trace the reception of Peter Weiss's Aesthetics of Resistance in (West) Germany and the United States. Focusing on the relation between politics and aesthetics, some critics characterized this relation as fraught, arguing that the novel's supposedly outdated politics ultimately rendered it obsolete. Others approached the novel as a writing experiment articulating politics and aesthetics in tense but producti…
Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance
Starting from Hannah Arendt's reflections on the openness of the future and the function of promises for political action, this essay offers a new understanding of the political pedagogy at work in The Aesthetics of Resistance. Rather than being narrated by the author's proxy, as much of the novel's reception assumes, Weiss plays subversively with mask narration. The narrator's selective reading of Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa guid…
Monological versus Dialogical Remembrance: Gert Neumann's Novel Anschlag in the Context of the Walser-Bubis Controversy
Fantasies, Echoes, and Whispers: The Experience of World War I in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern and Die Ästhetik des Widerstands
The author argues for the previously unexamined significance of World War I in Weiss's oeuvre and for Weiss's unique position in this highly influential literary tradition of imagining war through the figure of an uncommunicative witness to catastrophe. The story of the soldier returning silently from the trenches, unable to communicate the new horror of modern mass warfare, has become a myth of origin of the twentieth century. Weiss's Abschied v…
Risking Gas Warfare: Imperceptible Death and the Future of War in Weimar Culture and Literature
This essay examines how the anticipation of future warfare shaped the interwar period and led to the emergence of a literature of risk in Weimar culture. Having witnessed the introduction of air power and chemical warfare during the First World War, a broad European consensus held that unannounced aerial gassings of cities would decide the next war. After examining how the war scenarios of military strategists placed societies into an unprecedent…
Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance
In this introduction the editors first trace the reception of Peter Weiss's Aesthetics of Resistance in (West) Germany and the United States. Focusing on the relation between politics and aesthetics, some critics characterized this relation as fraught, arguing that the novel's supposedly outdated politics ultimately rendered it obsolete. Others approached the novel as a writing experiment articulating politics and aesthetics in tense but producti…
Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance
Starting from Hannah Arendt's reflections on the openness of the future and the function of promises for political action, this essay offers a new understanding of the political pedagogy at work in The Aesthetics of Resistance. Rather than being narrated by the author's proxy, as much of the novel's reception assumes, Weiss plays subversively with mask narration. The narrator's selective reading of Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa guid…
Philosophy (5 works) · Literature and Cultural Memory (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)