Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. List of Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction: Broch’s Life and Works 1
7. 1: Perspectives on Broch’s Die Schlafwandler: Narratives of History and the Self 37
8. 2: Hermann Broch and the Dilemma of Literature in the Modern Age 59
9. 3: Interrogating Modernity: Hermann Broch’s Postromanticism 73
10. 4: Broch and the Theater: Die Entsühnung and Aus der Luft gegriffen as Tragic and Comic Dramatizations of the Economic Machine 91
11. 5: Limits of the Scientific: Broch’s Die Unbekannte Größe 108
12. 6: Broch’s Die Verzauberung: Ludwig Klages and the Bourgeois Mitläufer 123
13. 7: Hermann Broch’s Massenwahnprojekt and Its Relevance for Our Times 143
14. 8: Human Rights and the Intellectual’s Ethical Duty: Broch’s Political Writings 159
15. 9: Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil: Art and Power, Language and the Ineffable 189
16. 10: From the “Tierkreis-Erzählungen” to Die Schuldlosen: The Creation of Broch’s Last Novel 207
17. 11: Broch’s Legacy and Resonance 228
18. Selected Bibliography 237
19. Notes on the Contributors 257
20. Index 261