The disinherited mind; essays in modern German literature and thought.
Title:
The disinherited mind; essays in modern German literature and thought.
Author:
Heller, Erich, 1911-1990.
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Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
Physical Description:
306 pages ; 19 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Goethe and the idea of scientific truth.--Goethe and the avoidance of tragedy.--Burckhardt and Nietzsche.--Nietzsche and Goethe.--Rilke and Nietzsche, with a discourse on thought, belief, and poetry.--Oswald Spengler and the predicament of the historical imagination.--The world of Franz Kafka.--Karl Kraus: The last days of mankind.--The hazard of modern poetry.
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Book