Stations of the Divided Subject

"This fine book is a cohesive and comprehensive argument regarding the vicissitudes of German culture from the Enlightenment to the First World War, notably the tension between art and politics."—Russell A. Berman, Stanford University

• Introduction: divided subjectivity and the internal dialectic of bourgeois literature; Part I. Repression and the Ideological Construction of Bourgeois Subjectivity; 1. Picturing Emilia: conflict of representations and the tragedy of bourgeois subjectivity in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Emilia Galotti; 2. Righting writing: semiotic conflict, hermeneutical disjunction, and the subl(im)ation of revolt in Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers; Part II. Literature as Therapy for Divided Subjects; 3. Freelancing: Heinrich Heine'sIdeas. The Book Le Grand and literature between service and servitude; 4. Carnivalization, spectatorship, and the critique of enlightenment in Georg Buchner's Woyzeck; Part III. The Return of the Political Repressed and The Aporia of The Bourgeois Subject; 5. The hermeneut(r)ic(k) of the psychic narrative: Freud's 'Uncanny' and the political unconscious in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's A Tale of the Cavalry; 6. Infinite commerce: the aporia of bourgeois subjectivity in Franz Kafka's The Judgem ent.