
Sophistication
Zwischen Denkstil und Pose
Nadja Geer(Author)
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267 pages
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'Sophistication. Zwischen Denkstil und Pose' [Sophistication. Between a Mode of Thought and a Pose] is an investigation into a particular form of pop-intellectualism that developed in Germany from the 1980s onwards. It stresses the formal qualities of that discourse and explains how it functions in society. Rejecting the social democratic style of aesthetic indifference, which the new pop-intellectuals regarded as a form of repressive tolerance, they referred stylistically in their own writing to figures like Ernst Jünger. This reverence for the writing of the conservative revolutionaries of the interwar period left a trace on the form that pop intellectualism took in Germany. While Rainald Goetz, Thomas Meinecke and Christian Kracht promoted sophistication, their general 'habitus' can be read as an elitist form of critical thinking. Moreover, with the German form of 'Poptheorie', Diedrich Diederichsen, in particular, created a kind of secret knowledge. This analysis examines the reaction of erudition when confronted with pop and questions of politics and power. Is the form of the discourse more significant than what it promotes? Can that form be a signifier for a hidden political agenda?
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Series
001
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2011
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Language
German
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
Dimensions
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 16.3 cm
Thickness: 2.3 cm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-89971-976-5 (9783899719765)
DOI
10.14220/9783899719765
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Author
Dr. Nadja Geer studierte an der FU Berlin Germanistik und Amerikanistik und an der HFF München Kulturjournalismus. Sie schreibt für »Die Zeit« und die »taz« und lebt in Berlin. Seit Herbst 2012 ist sie Mitherausgeberin der interdisziplinären akademischen Zeitschrift »Pop - Kultur und Kritik«.
Series Editor
Dr. Moritz Baßler ist Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
Dr. Heinz Drügh ist Professor für Neuere Deutsche Literatur und Ästhetik an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Dr. Albert Meier ist Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Christan-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
Prof. Dr. Dirk Niefanger lehrt Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg.
Content
'Sophistication. Zwischen Denkstil und Pose' [Sophistication. Between a Mode of Thought and a Pose] is an investigation into a particular form of pop-intellectualism that developed in Germany from the 1980s onwards. It stresses the formal qualities of that discourse and explains how it functions in society. Rejecting the social democratic style of aesthetic indifference, which the new pop-intellectuals regarded as a form of repressive tolerance, they referred stylistically in their own writing to figures like Ernst Jünger. This reverence for the writing of the conservative revolutionaries of the interwar period left a trace on the form that pop intellectualism took in Germany. While Rainald Goetz, Thomas Meinecke and Christian Kracht promoted sophistication, their general 'habitus' can be read as an elitist form of critical thinking. Moreover, with the German form of 'Poptheorie', Diedrich Diederichsen, in particular, created a kind of secret knowledge. This analysis examines the reaction of erudition when confronted with pop and questions of politics and power. Is the form of the discourse more significant than what it promotes? Can that form be a signifier for a hidden political agenda?>