Format:
1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9783631857533
,
9783631839997
Series Statement:
Literatur - Kultur - Oekonomie / Literature - Culture - Economy Ser. v.9
Content:
This book explores the ways in which capitalism shapes how modern Western European literary authors and social theorists have reflected upon the economic formation of the subject and subjectivity. The contributions engage with the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments
Note:
Cover -- Series Information -- Copyright Information -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction (Aileen Behrendt, Nicholas Courtman) -- Exploring the Economic Order: Work and Society in Capitalist Modernity -- Writing the Economic Subject -- On the Contributions -- References -- Marxian Undercurrents in Bataille's Analysis of Fascism (Elena Stingl) -- Introduction -- The Scholarly Consensus -- Philological Considerations -- France in Crisis: The Economic Situation after the Stock Market Crash -- Opposition between Normative Society and Unassimilated Elements -- Truck, Barter, and Exchange: Political Economy beyond the Aspect of Utility -- The Reduction of Human Activity in the Process of Exchange and the Submission of Human Activity to Impersonal Rule -- Conclusion: A Case for Confronting Less Glaring Events of Social Life -- References -- The Economic Body and the Incompletion of Time: On Walter Benjamin's "Capitalism as Religion" (Anat Messing Marcus) -- Introduction -- Capitalism as Mythic Violence -- On the Dialectical Image of the Prostitute -- Perception and Body -- References -- The Poet as Speculator: Reading Baudelaire's Economic Subjects with Benjamin (Simon Godart) -- Benjamin reading Baudelaire (twice) -- The Second Reading: Baudelaire's Construction of Empty Experience -- Speculations. Reading "La fausse monnaie" with Benjamin -- References -- Bartleby, or How Not to Be a Failure: The Malfunctioning Subject in 19th Century Work Environments (Nora Weinelt) -- Fail Better, Fail Faster, Fail Forward -- Being a Failure, versagen, rater -- Failures in the Office -- Bartleby's Non-Functioning, Bartleby's Non-Failing -- Being a failure in neoliberal societies -- References -- Against the Capitalist Narrative of Success and Failure - the Precarious Lives of Jean Rhys's Interwar Women (Aileen Behrendt)
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Precarious Lives: Women and Work -- Invisible Vagabonds: The Fixed-Term Contract of the Mistress -- Commodification of Female Bodies -- The Failed Flâneuse -- The Capitalist Narrative of Success and Failure -- References -- Violence as a Currency in the Neoliberal Order - Challenging the Literary Commodification of Lower-Class Masculinities in an Economy of Privilege (Katrin Frisch) -- Writing Between Precarity and Privilege -- The Multiple Dimensions of Violence -- Violence to Resist Commodification in The Swimming-Pool Library -- Literary Writing as Violence in Exodus -- Conclusion -- References -- Right to Work: The Humanitarian Migrant as Economic Subject in Contemporary German Literature (Dorothea Trotter) -- Introduction -- Working Values in Die Schutzbefohlenen -- Time and Frames in Gehen, Ging, Gegangen -- Integration: Being a Good Burger in Ohrfeige -- Conclusion -- References -- About the Authors
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Behrendt, Aileen Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,c2021 ISBN 9783631839997
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Europa
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Literatur
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Kapitalismus
;
Individuum
;
Geld
;
Arbeitskultur
;
Produktivität
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Geschichte 1901-2018
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
