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    Beyond Repetition: Karl Kraus's "Absolute Satire"

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    2013-10
    Author
    Linden, Ari
    Publisher
    Germanic Studies Association
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    Abstract
    This article reassesses the theoretical import of the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, arguing that his satire challenges conventional understandings of the genre. Most notably in The Last Days of Mankind (Die letzten Tage der Menschheit), Kraus's satire delegitimizes any given historical or political position, addressing, rather, what he calls "posterity" as the only viable alternative. This moment lies beyond the repetitive structures inherent to modernity, specifically as they were articulated in the First World War. Kraus's "absolute satire" (Hermann Broch) thus contains a temporal dimension insofar as its intended audience is one that does not yet exist.
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    This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/german_studies_review/v036/36.3.linden.html.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14291
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2013.0146
    ISSN
    0149-7952
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    • School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Scholarly Works [177]
    Citation
    Ari Linden. (2013). Beyond Repetition: Karl Kraus’s “Absolute Satire.” German Studies Review 36(3):515-536. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2013.0146

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