Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Acknowledgments 1
5. 1: The Limits of Technocracy 20
6. 2: Rilke’s Unnatural Things: From the End of Landscape to the Dinggedicht 66
7. 3: Nature on Stage: Gottfried Benn — Beyond the Aesthetics of Shock? 97
8. 4: The Limits of Violence: Döblin’s Colonial Nature 134
9. 5: Nature as Paradox: Brecht’s Exile Lyric 178
10. Appendix: Niklas Luhmann 227
11. Bibliography 231
12. Index 251