Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology
The Humanist Tradition in Peril
This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach 's life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically with his struggle against the premises of Aryan philology, based on völkisch mysticism and Nazi historiography, which eliminated the Old Testament from German Kultur and Volksgeist in particular, and Western culture and civilization in general. It examines in detail his apologia for, or defense and justification of, Western Judaeo-Christian huma…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-40957-3
- EAN: 9783319409573
- Produktnummer: 19929053
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.8 cm 518 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 518
Über den Autor
Avihu Zakai is Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of twelve books, among them Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003, in addition to numerous articles and presentations for scholarly and general audiences.
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