The pen confronts the sword exiled German scholars challenge Nazism

"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 Cassire...

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Autor principal: Zakai, Avihu (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press [2018]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39944566*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.