LEADER 03541cam a2200505 i 4500001 271298 005 20240621233651.0 008 180513t20182018nyu b s001 0 eng 010 2017056059 015 GBB8I1834 |2bnb 020 9781438471631 |q(hardcover) 020 1438471637 |q(hardcover) 020 |z9781438471655 |q(ebook) 024 8 40028460848 024 8 15432515 035 (OCoLC)on1037074240 035 271298 042 pcc 043 e-gx--- 049 LHMA 040 LBSOR/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dIUL |dYDX |dOCLCO |dYUS |dUBY |dUKMGB |dIAC |dDLC |dAU@ |dYOU |dLHM 050 00 PT3808 |b.Z35 2018 100 1 Zakai, Avihu, |eauthor. 245 14 The pen confronts the sword : |bexiled German scholars challenge Nazism / |cAvihu Zakai. 264 1 Albany : |bState University of New York Press, |c[2018]. 264 4 |c©2018 300 ix, 363 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 "During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirer's The Myth of the State (1946); Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946); and Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Each identified a specific danger in Nazi ideology and mustered new theories, approaches, and sources to combat it. The books aimed to expose the encompassing catastrophes of German culture (Mann), politics (Cassirer), philology (Auerbach), and philosophy and sociology (Horkheimer and Adorno). Their scope, mastery, and sense of urgency constitute a comprehensive Kulturkampf (culture war) against Nazi barbarism. Avihu Zakai cogently analyzes each work, explains the context of its creation, and draws connections between these four landmark books in Western intellectual history"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 323 - 347) and index. 505 0 The age of catastrophe : the struggle for the humanist soul of Europe -- Apocalypse and eschatology in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus : the "secret union of the German spirit with the demonic" -- Ernst Cassirer and The myth of the state : portrait of the disillusioned philosopher -- Erich Aauerbach's Book of books and the rational representation of reality in Western literature / with David Weinstein -- Enlightenment and its enemies : Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno and the dialectic of dialectic of enlightenment -- Exile, trauma, and interpretation. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Exiles' writings, German |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 German literature |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Authors, German |y20th century |xPolitical and social views. 650 0 Philosophy, German |y20th century. 650 7 Authors, German |xPolitical and social views. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00822069 650 7 Exiles' writings, German. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00918175 650 7 German literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00941797 650 7 Philosophy, German. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01060969 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 852 0 |bstacks |hPT3808 |i.Z35 2018