The Work of Art as Theory of Work
Relationality in the Works of Weiss and Negt & Kluge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9855485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Langston (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 195-216 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3200/gerr.83.3.195-216 |
| OpenAlex | W1997724034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Peter Weiss first met Alexander Kluge at a special 1962 meeting of Gruppe 47 dedicated to cinema. Weiss left records of this and other subsequent meetings in ensuing years. After an extended hiatus, Kluge (along with Oskar Negt) reappeared in Weiss's notebooks in the guise of their newly published second book of social theory; "Geschichte u. Eigensinn," Weiss jotted in June 1981, taking note of their book's title. This author contends that Weiss's Die Ästhetik des Widerstands (The Aesthetics of Resistance) and Negt and Kluge's Geschichte und Eigensinn, both completed the same year, are remarkable kindred spirits. Both underscore the importance of labor since the emergence of postindustrial societies after 1945. For labor to retain its capacity for protest, Weiss's novel and Negt and Kluge's theory identify the work of art and the theorization of work as concomitant forms of labor instilled with the same capacity for resistance that is rooted in all material forms of human labor
Art · Art history · Biology · oskar · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · German History and Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |