“Sorgenkind des Lebens”. Care, Inwardness and Ecstasy in The Magic Mountain: a Blochian Reading
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Ecstasy, Inwardness, Care, Bildungsroman, Weimar RepublicAbstract
This paper analyzes the concepts of care (Sorge), inwardness (Innerlichkeit) and ecstasy (Rausch) in The Magic Mountain (1924), by Thomas Mann. It deals with the philosophical and literary interpretations that Ernst Bloch developed about the Weimar Republic and aims at showing the transformations and ideological consequences of said concepts in the novel.
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