Barbarians and Civilizational Rhetoric from the End of the Cold War to the Present
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| Publication date | 2023 |
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| Book title | Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts. - Vol. II |
| Book subtitle | Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries |
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| Series | Schriften zur Weltliteratur |
| Chapter | 6.4.1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 256-286 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Publisher | Berlin: J.B. Metzler Verlag |
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| Abstract | On March 25, 1964, Adorno dreamt he had gathered a mob in order to kill a psychotherapist. This psychotherapist was about to give a lecture on Schubert, but first wanted to create some ‘atmosphere’ by singing one of Schubert’s songs in a fashion that the dreaming Adorno deems a Hollywood-like smudging of the difference between this artform and an operetta. Everyone tolerating such barbarity—so Adorno’s dream avatar argues to agitate the audience—would be a barbarian themselves. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04611-6_2
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