The Total Work of Art in European Modernism

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David Rok signale modern german letters, cultures, and thought

Series editor: Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Cornell University

Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought publishes new Englishlanguage books in literary studies, criticism, cultural studies, and intellectual history pertaining to the German-speaking world, as well as translations of important German-language works. Signale construes “modern” in the broadest terms: the series covers topics ranging from the early modern period to the present. Signale books are published under a joint imprint of Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library in electronic and print formats. Please see http://signale.cornell.edu/.

Part I The Artwork of the Future

Ancients and Moderns: Rousseau’s Civil Religion The Festivals of the French Revolution Revolution and Representation

The Abyss of Political Foundation

The Secularization of Art: Quatremére de Quincy Aesthetic Education: Schiller

Aesthetic Revolution: Hölderlin

The Destiny of Art: Hegel

. Prophets and Precursors: Paris 1830—1848

Organic and Critical Epochs: Saint-Simon Musical Palingenesis: Mazzini and Balzac The Musical City: Berlioz

Ancients and Moderns: Wagner

Modernism or the Long Nineteenth Century

The Birth of Tragedy: Nietzsche

The Great Work: Mallarmé

Dialectic of Enlightenment: From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century

Part II The Spiritual in Art

5. Religion and Art: Parsifal as Paradigm

The Idea of Return

The Profoundest Symbol: The Grail The Theater to Come

6. The Symbolist Mystery Homage to the Gesamtkunstwerk The Ultimate Fiction: Mallarmé’s Book The Last Ecstasy: Scriabin’s Mysterium Gnosis and Ecstasy

7. Gesamtkunstwerk and Avant-Garde The Avant-Garde: Analysis and Synthesis From Dionysus to Apollo: Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes The Spiritual in Art: Kandinsky and the Blaue Reiter The Crystal Cathedral: Bruno Taut and the Bauhaus

8. The Promised Land: Toward a Retotalized Theatre The Theatre Reform Movement World Theatre: Hofmannsthal and Claudel Theatre of Cruelty: Brecht and Artaud Synthesis of the Arts: A Typology

Part II The Sublime in Politics

9. National Regeneration The Community to Come Romain Rolland: Le théâtre du peuple Gabriele d Annunzio: I fuoco The Nietzschean Sublime

10. Art and Revolution: The Soviet Union The Birth of the New Man Festivals of the Revolution From Art to Life: The Russian Avant-Garde Stalin’s Total Work of Art

11. The Will to Power as Art: The Third Reich The Avant-Garde and the Breakthrough to Totality Benjamin and the Aestheticization of Politics The State as Work of Art: Jiinger’s Der Arbeiter Hitler’s Triumph of the Will