{"product_id":"private-anarchy-paul-buchholz-9780810136625","title":"Private Anarchy: Impossible Community and the Outsider's Monologue in German Experimental Fiction","description":"European social theorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tended to define modernity as a condition of heightened alienation in which traditional community is replaced by a regime of self-interested individualism and collective isolation. In \u003ci\u003ePrivate Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Buchholz develops an alternative intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing how a strain of German-language literature worked against this common conception of modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Buchholz suggests that in their experimental prose Gustav Landauer, Franz Kafka, Thomas Bernhard, and Wolfgang Hilbig each considered how the \"void\" of mass society could be the precondition for a new, anarchic form of community that would rest not on any assumptions of shared origins or organic unity but on an experience of extreme emptiness that blurs the boundaries of the self and enables intimacy between total strangers. This community, Buchholz argues, is created through the verbal form most closely associated with alienation and isolation: the monologue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By showing how these authors engaged with the idea of community and by relating these contributions to an extended intellectual genealogy of nihilism, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Anarchy \u003c\/i\u003eillustrates the distinct philosophical and sociopolitical stakes of German experimental writing in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Buchholz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810136627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810136625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Paul Buchholz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096744042751,"sku":"9780810136625","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/private-anarchy-paul-buchholz-9780810136625","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}