This is an original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature.
"A new and encyclopedic vision of modern German literary, intellectual and social history, achieved through the optic of discourse analysis, psychoanalysis, and semiotic theory, analyzed in a spirit of playfulness and impudent precision."--Stanley Corngold, Princeton University
"A new and encyclopedic vision of modern German literary, intellectual and social history, achieved through the optic of discourse analysis, psychoanalysis, and semiotic theory, analyzed in a spirit of playfulness and impudent precision."-Stanley Corngold, Princeton University