| Description |
vi, xi-xix, 404 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Critical bibliography": pages 383-396. |
| Contents |
Introduction: THe Chaos of Standards in OUr War Culture -- Overture: Friedrich Nietzsche - The hindenburg Line of Individualism -- I. The Surrender of Absolutes -- A. Bohemian Freedom -- B. Uncertainty as a Principle: The Negation of Substance -- II. The Embrace of Absolutes -- A. The Antaean Tradition -- B. The Medieval Tradition -- C. The Classical Tradition of Essence -- III. Fascism: The Systematization of Confusion -- A. The Roman Prelude -- B. the Aryan Finale -- C. Alienation of Art: Gerhart Hauptmann and hans Fallada -- IV. Midway Passage: Between the Lower Depths and Universal Order -- A. Spiritual Judaism: The Yearning for Status: Franz Werfel and Sholem Asch -- B. In Quest of Everyman: James Joyce and Eugene O'Neil -- C. Through the Lower Depths: Clifford Odets -- V. Toward the Communal Personality -- A. The Marxist Idea of the Universal Man -- B. The Masses and Man: George Bernard Shaw; Arnold Zweing and Lion Feuchtwanger; Heinrich Mann; Bertolt recht and Anna Seghers -- C. The COmmunal Personality in soviet Literature -- D. The Promise of America: John Steinbeck -- VI. Transfiguration by Estrangement -- A. Clash and COngruence Between Marx and Freud -- B. The Hope of Man: Andre Malraux -- C. The Idea of Universal Culture: Thomas Mann -- Conclusion: Toward a Dialectic Humanism |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
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