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In the shadow of catastrophe:

German intellectuals between apocalypse and enlightenment
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University of California Press, 1997 - Philosophy - 263 pages
These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time.
Analyzing the work of Benjamin and Bloch, he suggests their indebtedness to the traditions of Jewish messianism. In a discussion of Hugo Ball's little-known Critique of the German Intelligentsia, Rabinbach reveals the curious intellectual career of the Dadaist and antiwar activist turned-nationalist and anti-Semite. His examination of Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" and Jaspers's The Question of German Guilt illuminates the complex and often obscure political referents of these texts. Turning to Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, Rabinbach offers an arresting new interpretation of this central text of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. Subtly and persuasively argued, his book will become an indispensable reference point for all concerned with twentieth-century German history and thought.
  

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Contents

Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment Benjamin Bloch and Modern German Jewish Messianism
27
The Inverted Nationalism of Hugo Balls Critique of the German Intelligentsia
66
19461947
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Heideggers Letter on Humanism as Text and Event
97
The German as Pariah Karl Jasperss The Question of German Guilt
129
The Cunning of Unreason Mimesis and the Construction of AntiSemitism in Horkheimer and Adornos Dialectic of Enlightenment
166
Conclusion
199
Notes
209
Index
255
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About the author (1997)

Anson Rabinbach is Professor of History at Princeton University. He is author of The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934 (1983) and The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity (California, 1992).

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TitleIn the shadow of catastrophe: German intellectuals between apocalypse and enlightenment
Volume 14 of Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Series
Volume 14 of Weimar and now, ISSN 1549-1870
AuthorAnson Rabinbach
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherUniversity of California Press, 1997
ISBN0520926250, 9780520926257
Length263 pages
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History / Europe / Germany
Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
  
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