The Age of Questions by Case, Holly -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: Questions and Their Predecessors

Definitions The Reality of Questions Beyond Begriff Questions as Problems Ennui and Excess Predecessors and Foils of Questions Querelle, querist, querulant

1 The National Argument: The Imperial to the National Age

A Word-Making Age An Imperial Prehistory of the Age International Public Sphere Hungary Enters the “Age of Questions” What’s in a Word? Epilogue

2 The Progressive Argument: The Age of Emancipation

A Progressive Age Bundling Questions: For Our Freedom and Yours Critics of the Age The Essence of Questions Contradictions and Defects A New Man Popular Pedagogy An Answering Being Epilogue

3 The Argument about Force: The Loaded Questions of a Genocidal Age

A Demoralized Age The Dark Side of Emancipation The Dark Side of Bundling The Dark Side of Equilibrium Sanctioned Decontamination: The Jewish Question in the Age of Questions Hitler as Question Bundler Epilogue

4 The Federative Argument: The Age of Erasing Borders

An Aggregating Age Formulating Universalism Federated Questions: From Indefinite to Definite The Federation Consensus Epilogue

5 The Argument about Farce: The Farcical Age

A Fraudulent Age The Scientization of Questions The Wages of Passion Epilogue

6 The Temporal Argument: The Age of Spin

A Time-Conscious Age Timing The American Question Revisited Periodicity Cathartic Futures A Question of Genre: The Constraints Imposed by Timeliness Zeitfragen Epilogue

7 The Suspension-Bridge Argument: The Age of Spanning Contradictions

A Paradoxical Age Automatism A Shift in Register In Two Places at Once The Function and Fiction of the Age

Notes Index