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The Dear Purchase - A Theme in German Modernism (Paperback, New ed)
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The Dear Purchase - A Theme in German Modernism (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in German
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This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of
German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke,
in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores
the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral strenuousness
and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche,
and reveals the underlying flaw in this notion as a self-justifying
value. In this context, it considers the renaissance of German
poetry after 1900, the impact of the War of 1914, its aftermath in
uncertainty and relativism, and attitudes to the Hitler period, and
finally juxtaposes Mann's Felix Krull and Kafka's story Josephine
as a deliverance from the value-system of the title. The
Introduction, partly autobiographical, traces J. P. Stern's
preoccupation with this interpretation of his material in many of
the books he published (especially those concerned with Nietzsche
and Hitler), and pays tribute to Wittgenstein's influence on his
thinking.
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