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  1. The pen confronts the sword
    exiled German scholars challenge Nazism
    Autor*in: Zakai, Avihu
    Erschienen: [2018]
    Verlag:  State University of New York Press, Albany

    The age of catastrophe : the struggle for the humanist soul of Europe -- Apocalypse and eschatology in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus : the "secret union of the German spirit with the demonic" -- Ernst Cassirer and The myth of the state : portrait of... mehr

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    The age of catastrophe : the struggle for the humanist soul of Europe -- Apocalypse and eschatology in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus : the "secret union of the German spirit with the demonic" -- Ernst Cassirer and The myth of the state : portrait of the disillusioned philosopher -- Erich Aauerbach's Book of books and the rational representation of reality in Western literature / with David Weinstein -- Enlightenment and its enemies : Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno and the dialectic of dialectic of enlightenment -- Trauma, exile, and interpretation "During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirer's The Myth of the State (1946); Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946); and Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Each identified a specific danger in Nazi ideology and mustered new theories, approaches, and sources to combat it. The books aimed to expose the encompassing catastrophes of German culture (Mann), politics (Cassirer), philology (Auerbach), and philosophy and sociology (Horkheimer and Adorno). Their scope, mastery, and sense of urgency constitute a comprehensive Kulturkampf (culture war) against Nazi barbarism. Avihu Zakai cogently analyzes each work, explains the context of its creation, and draws connections between these four landmark books in Western intellectual history"--

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1438471653; 9781438471655
    Schlagworte: Philosophy, German; Authors, German; Exiles' writings, German; German literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; German; Authors, German ; Political and social views; Exiles' writings, German; German literature; Philosophy, German; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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    Includes bibliographical references and index