Research Catalog

Title

In the shadow of catastrophe : German intellectuals between apocalypse and enlightenment / Anson Rabinbach.

Author

Rabinbach, Anson.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

viii, 263 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• In this volume, Anson Rabinbach, an eminent intellectual and cultural historian, addresses the writings of some of the central figures in twentieth-century German thought. Rabinbach begins with a wide-ranging introduction, in which he discusses the intimate connection between apocalypse and twentieth-century German philosophy and compares the two postwar periods.
• He then goes on to show how diverse were the German intellectuals in their response to and understanding of catastrophe in their postwar writings.

Series Statement

Weimar and now ; 14

Uniform Title

Weimar and now ; 14.

Subject

• Arts and society > Germany > History > 20th century
• Enlightenment > Germany
• Jews > Germany > Intellectual life
• Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Germany > Politics and government > 1918-1933

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-263) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Apocalypse and Its Shadows -- Pt. I. World War I. 1. Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment: Benjamin, Bloch, and Modern German-Jewish Messianism. 2. The Inverted Nationalism of Hugo Ball's Critique of the German Intelligentsia -- Pt. II. 1946-1947. 3. Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" as Text and Event. 4. The German as Pariah: Karl Jaspers's The Question of German Guilt. 5. The Cunning of Unreason: Mimesis and the Construction of Anti-Semitism in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment.

ISBN

0520207440 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96039459

OCLC

• 35848963
• ocm35848963
• SCSB-14281072

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries