(Print publication year : 2019)
Covers the major modernist literary works of Broch and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to his political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings.
Introduction: Broch’s Life and Works pp 1-36
By Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey
1 - Perspectives on Broch’s Die Schlafwandler: Narratives of History and the Self pp 37-58
2 - Hermann Broch and the Dilemma of Literature in the Modern Age pp 59-72
By Gunther Martens
3 - Interrogating Modernity: Hermann Broch’s Postromanticism pp 73-90
By Galin Tihanov
4 - Broch and the Theater: Die Entsühnung and Aus der Luft gegriffen as Tragic and Comic Dramatizations of the Economic Machine
pp 91-107
By Brechtje Beuker
5 - Limits of the Scientific: Broch’s Die Unbekannte Größe pp 108-122
By Gwyneth Cliver
6 - Broch’s Die Verzauberung: Ludwig Klages and the Bourgeois Mitläufer pp 123-142
By Gisela Brude-Firnau
7 - Hermann Broch’s Massenwahnprojekt and Its Relevance for Our Times pp 143-158
By Judith Ryan
8 - Human Rights and the Intellectual’s Ethical Duty: Broch’s Political Writings pp 159-188
By Sebastian Wogenstein
9 - Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil: Art and Power, Language and the Ineffable pp 189-206
By Jennifer Jenkins
10 - From the “Tierkreis-Erzählungen” to Die Schuldlosen: The Creation of Broch’s Last Novel pp 207-227
By Judith Sidle
11 - Broch’s Legacy and Resonance pp 228-236
By Paul Michael Lützeler