Reason and Energy: Studies in German Literature (Routledge Library Editions: German Literature) - Softcover

Hamburger, Michael

 
9780367436865: Reason and Energy: Studies in German Literature (Routledge Library Editions: German Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367436868 ISBN 13: 9780367436865
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Originally published in 1957, this volume brings together a collection of essays and hard to source translations on both well and lesser known German writers and poets, including Hölderlin, Benn, Mann and Nietzsche. The essays are linked by a consideration of the tension between the desire for what Thomas Mann called ‘the miracle of ingeniousness regained’ and the constrains of reason. The book shows how this tension contributes toward the prophetic nature of so much 18th and 19th Century German literature and its modernity, which qualities are also placed in the context of German political and social conditions. All prose quotations are given in English translation, and the majority of verse quotations in both German and English.

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About the Author

Raymond Furness was at the Universities of Manchester and St. Andrews

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367436868
ISBN 13 
9780367436865
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
322

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