Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology - The Humanist Tradition in Peril (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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 voelkisch 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 humanist tradition at its gravest existential moment. It discusses Auerbach's ultimate goal, which was to counter the overt racist tendencies and voelkish ideology in Germany, or the belief in the Community of Blood and Fate of the German people, which sharply distinguished between Kultur and civilization and glorified voelkisch nationalism over European civilization. The volume includes an analysis of the entire twenty chapters of Auerbach's most celebrated book: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Avihu Zakai
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	218
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-40957-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	3-319-40957-3
Barcode:	9783319409573

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