Thought-images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from
In this book,Gerhard Richter explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of theDenkbild,or thought-image,as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century: Theodor W. Adorno,Walter Benjamin,Ernst Bloch,and Siegfried Kracauer. TheDenkbild is a poetic mode of writing,a brief snapshot-in-prose that stages the interrelation of literary,philosophical,political,and cultural insights. Richter'