Nazi Germany and the American Germanists

Magda Lauwers-Rech

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 2
• This study discusses the reaction of American Germanists to Nazism and World War II as expressed in academic journals between 1930 and 1946. The colle... Lees meer

Luther Bible Research in the Context of Volkish Nationalism in the Twentieth Century

Julie M Winter

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 19
• The Luther Bible was the topic of a large amount of scholarly literature in Germany in the early twentieth century. Close examination of this research... Lees meer

Imagination and Depth in Kant's «Critique of Pure Reason»

Bernard Freydberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 6
• This book shows Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as undergirded by an everpresent imagination-driven depth, even where least expected (i.e. the Aestheti... Lees meer

When Lucifer Cometh

Richard Critchfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 7
• As early as 1933, exiled writers and intellectuals from Nazi Germany began to write their autobiographies, memoirs and other autobiographical texts, s... Lees meer

Language and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 5
• In March 1938, Hitler easily moved his grand design by «annexing» Austria. This «bloodless» coup introduces one of history's most extravagant bloodlet... Lees meer

Einerseits Und Andererseits

Reinhild Steingröver

• Hardcover | Duits | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 20
• Das Buch bietet Leseversuche dreier Bernhardscher Romane: Korrektur, Der Untergeher, und Alte Meister . Untersucht wird die genaue Struktur und Wirkun... Lees meer

Fremdlinge Im Eigenen Haus

Reinhard Mayer

• Hardcover | Duits | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 8
• Die Radikalität von Thomas Manns Montage-Verfahren erreicht seinen Höhepunkt in der Reflektiertheit des fiktiven Erzählers Serenus Zeitblom. Diese Stu... Lees meer

The Play of the Platonic Dialogues

Bernard Freydberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 12
• Play resides at the heart of the Platonic dialogues, shaping their insights as well as informing their style. The Play of the Platonic Dialogues trace... Lees meer

Nature, Science, Realism

Thomas L Buckley

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 4
• This study is an important contribution to the present-day discourse concerning the relations between literature and science within a nineteenth-centu... Lees meer

Nietzsche in China

Lixin Shao

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 11
• Nietzsche has been one of the most influential Western thinkers in twentieth-century China. Many prominent cultural and political figures, such as Lia... Lees meer

A Life in Two Worlds

Michael Blume

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 3
• A Life in Two Worlds is the autobiography of a man who lived two lives, one as an Expressionist dramatist in the cultural ferment of Germany's Weimar ... Lees meer

Grenzgaenger

Jörg Schäfer

• Hardcover | Duits | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 13
• An der Grenze zwischen Literatur und Religion wird ein «sublimer Gemeinplatz» illustriert: Leben finden, indem man es preisgibt; vom paulinischen «Hab... Lees meer

Leo Baeck

David Dowdey, Wolfgang Rhee

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 10
• This book is about a major figure of the twentieth century - Leo Baeck, as well as about a major topic - the Holocaust. While not well known outside o... Lees meer

Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others)

Bernard Freydberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 21
• Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others) seeks (1) to liberate form from its primary affiliation with intellect and with its putative s... Lees meer

Exile and Displacement

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 22
• This anthology of autobiographical essays, in English and German, is written by academics and writers of German-Jewish background and presents a spect... Lees meer

Bruno Schulz New Documents and Interpretations

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 15
• Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) has long been recognized, internationally and by leading American writers and critics, as a major twentieth-century author of... Lees meer

Walking with Ghosts

Jennifer Trahan

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and the Sciences of Man | nr. 17
• During a walk to town, Elizabeth Welt Trahan allows the memories of her childhood to surface after more than a half century - first in short, disconne... Lees meer