Decentred Totalities in Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann and Theodor W. Adorno
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evelyn Cobley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-191 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernist Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8629 • E-ISSN: 2041-1022 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/e2041102209000100 |
| OpenAlex | W2046600628 |
| Language | EN |
Reexamining the famous collaboration between Mann and Adorno on Doctor Faustus (1947), Evelyn Cobley (University of Victoria, B.C.) argues that by incorporating Adorno's music theory Mann encouraged a reading of German fascism not as the belated eruption of insufficiently repressed atavistic impulses but as an early instance of a postmodern logic that, according to Adorno, undergirds both fascism and late capitalism
Art · Art history · Capitalism · German · Literature · Politics · Postmodernism · Reading (process · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · German Literature and Culture Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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