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In the Shadow of Catastrophe : German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment / Anson Rabinbach.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rabinbach, Anson, author.
- Series:
- Weimar and now ; Volume 14.
- Weimar and Now ; Volume 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--Germany.
- Enlightenment.
- Jews--Germany--Intellectual life.
- Jews.
- Jews--Intellectual life.
- Political science.
- Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 263 p. )
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley ; Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, [1997]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time. Analyzing the work of Benjamin and Bloch, he suggests their indebtedness to the traditions of Jewish messianism. In a discussion of Hugo Ball's little-known Critique of the German Intelligentsia, Rabinbach reveals the curious intellectual career of the Dadaist and antiwar activist turned-nationalist and anti-Semite. His examination of Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" and Jaspers's The Question of German Guilt illuminates the complex and often obscure political referents of these texts. Turning to Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, Rabinbach offers an arresting new interpretation of this central text of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. Subtly and persuasively argued, his book will become an indispensable reference point for all concerned with twentieth-century German history and thought.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Apocalypse and Its Shadows
- PART I. WORLD WAR I
- PART II. 1946-1947
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-263) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520926257
- 0520926250
- 9780585115474
- 0585115478
- OCLC:
- 1153515434
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