Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de SiècleUniversity of California Press, 2000年3月1日 - 345 頁 Scott Spector’s adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. His incisive readings of a broad array of German writers feature the work of Kafka and the so-called "Prague circle" and encompass journalism, political theory, Zionism, and translation as well as literary program and practice. With the collapse of German-liberal cultural and political power in the late-nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, Prague’s bourgeois Jews found themselves squeezed between a growing Czech national movement on the one hand and a racial rather than cultural conception of Germanness on the other. Displaced from the central social and cultural position they had come to occupy, the members of the "postliberal" Kafka generation were dazzlingly productive and original, far out of proportion to their numbers. Seeking a relationship between ideological crisis and cultural innovation, Spector observes the emergence of new forms of territoriality. He identifies three fundamental areas of cultural inventiveness related to this Prague circle’s political and cultural dilemma. One was Expressionism, a revolt against all limits and boundaries, the second was a spiritual form of Zionism incorporating a novel approach to Jewish identity that seems to have been at odds with the pragmatic establishment of a Jewish state, and the third was a sort of cultural no-man’s-land in which translation and mediation took the place of "territory." Spector’s investigation of these areas shows that the intensely particular, idiosyncratic experience of German-speaking Jews in Prague allows access to much broader and more general conditions of modernity. Combining theoretical sophistication with a refreshingly original and readable style, Prague Territories illuminates some early signs of a contemporary crisis from which we have not yet emerged. |
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Wheres the Difference? Culture Ideology and the Aesthetics of Nationality | 36 |
The Territory of Language From Art to Politics | 68 |
Encircling Humanity Expressionist Universalism and Revolution | 93 |
Circumscribing Spiritual Territory Inside Pragues Cultural Zionism | 135 |
New Orientations Judaism Desire and the Gaze Eastward | 160 |
Middle Ground Translation Mediation Correspondence | 195 |
Middle Europe | 234 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 319 |
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第 104 頁 - Minor literature is completely different; its cramped space forces each individual intrigue to connect immediately to politics. The individual concern thus becomes all the more necessary, indispensable, magnified, because a whole other story is vibrating within it.
第 289 頁 - Die leichte Möglichkeit des Briefschreibens muß - bloß theoretisch angesehn eine schreckliche Zerrüttung der Seelen in die Welt gebracht haben. Es ist ja ein Verkehr mit Gespenstern und zwar nicht nur mit dem Gespenst des Adressaten, sondern auch mit dem eigenen Gespenst, das sich einem unter der Hand in dem Brief, den man schreibt, entwickelt oder gar in einer Folge von Briefen, wo ein Brief den ändern erhärtet und sich auf ihn als Zeugen berufen kann.
第 234 頁 - ... first, since he drives him back. But it is only theoretically so. For it is not only the two antagonists who are there, but he himself as well, and who really knows his intentions? His dream, though, is that some time in an unguarded moment - and this would require a night darker than any night has ever been yet - he will jump out of the fighting line and be promoted, on account of his experience in fighting, to the position of umpire over his antagonists in their fight with each other.
第 68 頁 - Die Sprache kann für alles außerhalb der sinnlichen Welt nur andeutungsweise, aber niemals auch nur annähernd vergleichsweise gebraucht werden, da sie entsprechend der sinnlichen Welt nur vom Besitz und seinen Beziehungen handelt.
第 234 頁 - ... he will spring out of the fighting line and be promoted, on account of his experience of such warfare, as judge over his struggling antagonists.
第 137 頁 - Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
第 145 頁 - I don't want to know that you are fond of me. If I did, how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you? Oh, there is a sad, sad reason for not doing so. To make it short : My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood.
第 251 頁 - Edward W. Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (London: Verso, 1989).
第 260 頁 - Jugend an sehr stark, ja, ich verstehe es gar nicht, wenn ein Jude, der in einer slawischen Gegend Österreichs geboren ist, zur Sprachforschung nicht gedrängt wird. Er lernte damals [...] genau genommen drei Sprachen zugleich verstehen: Deutsch als die Sprache der Beamten, der Bildung, der Dichtung und seines Umgangs; Tschechisch als die Sprache der Bauern und...