Zwischen Verdammnis und Magie. Joseph Roths mediale Apokalypse in Der Antichrist
Between Damnation and Magic. Joseph Roth’s Medial Apocalypse in "The Antichrist"
Author(s): Wolfgang Müller-FunkSubject(s): Media studies, Austrian Literature, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Odsjek za germanistiku - Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Keywords: Joseph Roth; Max Picard; cultural criticism; media criticism; apocalypse;
Summary/Abstract: Joseph Roth’s essay The Antichrist (1934) is a blend of conservative cultural criticism and progressive values, typical of its period. What makes his insights distinctive is the combination of discontent with capitalism and technological civilization with a media critique emphasizing metaphysical and existential yearnings: the obsession with eternity, media production of a second world of shadows, replacement of God by man – an act that irreversibly destroys the godlike features of a being created in God’s image. By advancing this diagnosis in a text which is unusually theoretical in comparison to his other writings, Roth participates in contemporary debates on virtuality and the simulacrum.
Journal: Zagreber Germanistische Beiträge
- Issue Year: 2025
- Issue No: 34
- Page Range: 65-75
- Page Count: 11
- Language: German
