The Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature

A bold new theoretical analysis of literary modernism and its conception of and relation to nature.

Introduction
The Limits of Technocracy
Rilke's Unnatural Things: From the End of Landscape to the Dinggedicht
Nature on Stage: Gottfried Benn -- Beyond the Aesthetics of Shock?
The Limits of Violence: Döblin's Colonial Nature
Nature as Paradox: Brecht's Exile Lyric
Appendix: Niklas Luhmann
Bibliography
Index