Georg Buchner: Contemporary Perspectives examines the continuing relevance of Buchner in the early twenty-first century in terms of politics, science, philosophy, aesthetics, cultural studies and performance studies. It situates Buchner s interdisciplinary work in relation to the philosophical, scientific and religious discourses of his time, while also investigating the ways in which Buchner s intersectional writings anticipated sometimes uncannily questions and problems which were to become central concerns in modernism and after. The nineteen essays in the book, some in English and...