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Podcast: New Books in German Studies
Episode: Ari Linden, "Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Modernity" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
Description: In Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Modernity (Northwestern University Press, 2020), Ari Linden analyzes Karl Kraus’s oeuvre while engaging in the conversation about modernism and modernity, which is shaped and conditioned by the already post-postmodern condition.This perspective opens up the exploration of modernist projects and allows a discussion that goes beyond a specific time-period and invites us to locate the conversation about Kraus, as well as about the modernist discourse, in the context of the present moment.In his book, Linden outlines the most salient features of Kraus’s writing and establishes an ethi...