This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Before WWI: Waiting for the Storm
1. Empires and their Collapse: Fin-de-siècle Vienna in Context
2. Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Promises and Realities
3. Novel Origins: Rilke's Notebooks of Malte and Hofmannsthal's Andreas
Part II. Suspended in the In-Between: Franz Kafka
4. Kafka's Sources and Insights: Theatre and Other Modes of Distorted Communication
5. Kafka's Novels: In Between Theatre, Theology and Prophecy
6. The Zürau Notebooks: The Indestructible and the Way
Part III. After WWI: Hypermodernity as Sacrificial Carnival
7. Thomas Mann: Death in Venice and Magic Mountain
8. Karen Blixen: Carnival and Angelic Avengers
9. Hermann Broch: Sleepwalkers
10. Mikhail Bulgakov: Master and Margarita
11. Heimito von Doderer: Demons
12. Béla Hamvas: Carnival
Conclusion
