The Politics of Discourse
Third Thoughts on «New Subjectivity»
Published on 1. February 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
323 pages
978-3-261-04409-9 (ISBN)
Description
«New Subjectivity» was the salient signifier employed by German literary critics in the 1970s to signal a shift from the discourses of «engagement», which had characterized the previous decade, to a paradigm of self-focus. This book explores the interface between the discursive field and its critical participants. In retrospect, the «New Subjectivity» discourse marks a significant watershed in the pre-history of a united German future whose discourses will be mediated between split pasts and imperfectly fused presents. «Third thoughts» names an interdisciplinary approach which penetrates the illusion of discursive unity without presuming that its reifying power will thereby be neutralized.
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Person
The Author: Karen Ruoff Kramer, a native Californian, has lived in Berlin since the early 1970s. She holds degrees in English Literature, Philosophy and German Studies from Stanford University and the Freie Universität Berlin. She is Director of Stanford University's Berlin Study Center, where she teaches German theater, literature and film. Her research specializations include contemporary cultural studies, theory, literature and performance media. The author is a published poet in English and German.
Content
Contents: Cultural Politics & Political Culture - Word Whores - The «Death» of Literature - The Politics of Difference - Public Sphere & Private Space - Büchner's Lenz and Schneider's Lenz - Interview with Peter Schneider - Collective Subjectivity in Verena Stefan's Häutungen - The «Specifically Female» as Productive Illusion.