In 1926

Living on the Edge of Time

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

    User's Manual

    Arrays

    Airplanes

    Americans in Paris

    Assembly Lines

    Automobiles

    Bars

    Boxing

    Bullfighting

    Cremation

    Dancing

    Elevators

    Employees

    Endurance

    Engineers

    Gomina

    Gramophones

    Hunger Artists

    Jazz

    League of Nations

    Mountaineering

    Movie Palaces

    Mummies

    Murder

    Ocean Liners

    Polarities

    Railroads

    Reporters

    Revues

    Roof Gardens

    Six-Day

    Races

    Stars

    Strikes

    Telephones

    Timepieces

    Wireless Communication

    Codes

    Action vs. Impotence

    Authenticity vs. Artificiality

    Center vs. Periphery

    Immanence vs. Transcendence

    Individuality vs. Collectivity

    Male vs. Female

    Present vs. Past

    Silence vs. Noise

    Sobriety vs. Exuberance

    Uncertainty vs. Reality

    Codes Collapsed

    Action = Impotence (Tragedy)

    Authenticity = Artificiality (Life)

    Center = Periphery (Infinitude)

    Immanence = Transcendence(Death)

    Individuality = Collectivity (Leader)

    Male = Female (Gender Trouble)

    Present = Past (Eternity)

    Frames

    After Learning from History

    Being-in-the-Worlds of 1926: Martin Heidegger, Hans Friedrich Blunck, Carl Van Vechten

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: In 1926
  • A photo of the author

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is Albert Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University.