Critical Essays

Foreword: John Simon Introduction: Reinhold Grimm Part One: Literature and the Media 1. The Industrialization of the Mind Translated by the author 2. Poetry and Politics Translated by Michael Roloff 3. Commonplaces on the Newest Literature Translated by Michael Roloff 4. Constituents of a Theory of the Media Translated by Stuart Hood Part Two: Politics and History Translated by Michael Roloff 1. Toward a Theory of Treason 2. Reflections before a Glass Cage 3. Las Casas, or A Look Back into the Future 4. Berlin Commonplaces Part Three: Sociology and Ecology 1. Tourists of the Revolution Translated by Michael Roloff 2. A Critique of Political Ecology Translated by Stuart Hood 3. On the Inevitability of the Middle Classes: A Sociological Caprice Translated by Judith Ryan 4. Two Notes on the End of the World Translated by David Fernbach Notes