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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 December 2009
      02 February 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511597763
      9780521433303
      9780521024402
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597763
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.663kg, 468 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (217 x 142 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.603kg, 468 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in German
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in German
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    This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the underlying flaw in this notion as a self-justifying value. In this context, it considers the renaissance of German poetry after 1900, the impact of the War of 1914, its aftermath in uncertainty and relativism, and attitudes to the Hitler period, and finally juxtaposes Mann's Felix Krull and Kafka's story Josephine as a deliverance from the value-system of the title. The Introduction, partly autobiographical, traces J. P. Stern's preoccupation with this interpretation of his material in many of the books he published (especially those concerned with Nietzsche and Hitler), and pays tribute to Wittgenstein's influence on his thinking.

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    ‘… [a] matchless analysis of German Modernism.’

    Source: The Times

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