Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Modernity, Modernism, and Violence
Chapter 2. Causing Violence: Robert Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless and the Path to an Antireductionist Theory of Violence
Chapter 3. War, Violence, and the Malleable Self: Robert Musil's Postwar Critique of Violence in The Man Without Qualities
Chapter 4. Kafka's Poetics of the Knife: On Violence, Truth, and Ambivalence in In the Penal Colony
Chapter 5. Chemical Warfare and Destructive Satires: Canetti and Benjamin's Search for the Murderous Substance of Satire
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index