The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination
and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to
be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological
self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich
Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from
Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and
manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been
achieved - such as the comic triumphs of Wilhelm Busch. As
elsewhere in Professor Heller's work, Thomas Mann's attempt to
outwit and redeem his circumstances through art - 'despite' them,
as he said himself - occupies a central place. Three of the present
essays are devoted to him. Others consider Kleist, Fontane, Hamsun,
Karl Kraus and the crucial figures of Holderlin (who plays such a
central role in Heidegger's later philosophical writings) and
Rilke. Written with feeling, and the distinctive elegance and wit
that have characterized all of Professor Heller's work, the essays
here reaffirm the vital interdependence of literature and human
values.
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