This work reconsiders the connections between mysticism, nationalism and modernity in twentieth-century German cultures. Disengaging mysticism from occultism, the author creates a new space for reconsidering mysticism's links to larger structures of modernity already at play at the turn of the century. Rather than dismissing mysticism as a strain of anti-modern irrationalism with troubling links to radical politics such as Nazism, the author reconceptualizes modern mysticism as an unwittingly logical expression of the same compression of time and space created by the emergence of the newspaper, radio, railways and telegraph and reflected in the novels of Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch.
- ISBN13 9783039105793
- Publish Date 23 April 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CH
- Imprint Verlag Peter Lang
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 175
- Language English
- URL https://peterlang.com/view/product/9761?format=PBK