Attention
and Distraction
in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture
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Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history. This interdisciplinary study explores the dynamic relationship between attention and its supposed opposite, distraction, as it unfolds from the eighteenth century to the present day. Its primary focus is on twentieth-century Germany and Austria, where matters of (in)attention gained a unique urgency during a period of social change and political crisis.Building on Enlightenment practices of self-observation, nineteenth-century Germany was the birthplace