Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity by Ari Linden - 2020

Northwestern University Press, 2020. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Linden probes the iterations, implications, and re-articulations of critical insights that Viennese satirist, journalist and playwright Kraus' (1874-1936) brought the relationship between mass media, the state, the public sphere, and the modern subject. Looking first at satire and counter-discourse, he covers reciting war: The Last Days of Mankind (1915-22); on birds, wars, and fragile republics: Cloudcuckooland (1923); and where illegality becomes the law: Third Walpurgis Night (1933-1952). Then he turns to dialogues: Kierkegaard, Kraus, and Benjamin; Adorno and Kraus, and Kraus and posterity. (2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)