Introduction. Toward a Krausian Theory of Modernity -- Reciting War: The Last Days of Mankind (1915-22) -- On Birds, Wars, and Fragile Republics: Cloudcuckooland (1923) -- "Where Illegality Becomes the Law": Third Walpurgis Night (1933/52) -- "A Monstrous Non-Entity": Kierkegaard, Kraus, and Benjamin -- "Origin is the Goal": Adorno and Kraus -- Coda. "Shadows Cast Bodies": Kraus and Posterity
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"Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity argues that the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus's work draws attention to the distinctly modern way in which experience lags behind political catastrophe"-- Provided by publisher.
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