The Making of a Terrorist
On Classic German Rogues
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2014
Book
Hardback
170 pages
978-0-8101-3010-4 (ISBN)
Description
In The Making of a Terrorist, Jeffrey Champlin examines key figures from three canonical texts from the German-language literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Goethe's Goetz von Berlichingen, Schiller's Die Raeuber, and Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas. Champlin situates these readings within a larger theoretical and historical context, exploring the mechanics, aesthetics, and poetics of terror while explicating the emergence of the terrorist personality in modernity. In engaging and accessible prose, Champlin explores the ethical dimensions of violence and interrogates an ethics of textual violence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
364 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-3010-4 (9780810130104)
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E-Book
12/2014
1st Edition
Northwestern University Press
€96.99
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Persons
Jeffrey Champlin teaches at Bard College, where he is an associate fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center. He is also a visiting assistant professor and chair of the Department of Literature and Society at the Bard Honors College at Al-Quds University.
Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities at NYU as well as Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy and Media at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities at NYU as well as Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy and Media at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.