Addressing American readers, historian Wallace highlights Austrian-Jewish intellectual Hermann Broch’s position in American intellectual history as he presents an intellectual biography that focuses p
An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short
Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new b
A great American writer’s confrontation with a great European critic—a personal and intellectual awakeningA hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and proph
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna—its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastati
Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought
Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought
Heinrich von Kleist is renowned as an author who posed a radical challenge to the orthodoxies of his age. Today, his works are frequently seen to relentlessly deconstruct the paradigms of Idealism and
"In January 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gunter Grass made two New Year's resolutions: the first was to travel extensively in the newly united country and the second was to kee
This new study introduces the reader into Lou Andreas-Salome's critical and creative engagement with modern thought. Through detailed explorations of some of her major texts, Brinker-Gabler examines A
Twenty-two years after his death, Thomas Bernhard’s work continues to fascinate, irritate, and please readers. This book analyzes Bernhard’s writings in the light of post-war Austrian history, challen
Modernity, with its lack of a self-legitimating ethico-philosophical system and reliance for legitimacy on discursive formations without ultimate foundation, poses the problem of homo politicus - the
This volume offers the first English language collection of academic essays on the post-Holocaust thought of Jean Amery, a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. Comprehensi
The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily answered, and, after having been neglected during the heyday of postmodernism, is returni
Bethman (Women's Center at U. of Missouri-Kansas City) investigates the dichotomy of Elfriede Jelinek's writing perspective as a post-modernist and political association as a Marxist feminist, as cate
About This Book"No amount of wisdom could possibly make sense of the mysterious verdict which God intended through this duel."A new translation of a key work by one of European literature’s most impor
A reading of Walter Benjamin's Origin of the German Tragic Drama establishes his literary and cultural contexts within the ideological literary and political theory of the Baroque in Germany during th
Walter Benjamin became a published writer at the age of seventeen. Yet the first stirrings of this most original of critical minds—penned during the years in which he transformed himself from the comf
In this companion to his previous book, Nazi Paris, Mitchell recounts controversial German novelist Ernst Junger's years in Paris during the Nazi period. Junger was a military officer during Germany's
The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received
