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Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of
Germany's belated industrial revolution and suggests why German
literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition
of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism
offered in three genres of drama, poetry and prose fiction. The
book closely analyses specific texts, both in the original and in
translation, with comparisons with non-German works.
First published in 1973, On Realism is a comprehensive introduction
to the complex problem of literary realism. Written from both a
critical and philosophical perspective, the book brings together
the concrete study of literary cases and the conceptual analysis of
the terms used in describing them. It uses examples drawn from a
wide range of European literature and engages in philosophical
discussion to argue for a richer and freer sense of the concept
than was more commonly in favour at the time of writing. The book
describes the literary forms of realism as an art of the 'middle
distance' and sets out its character and value against alternatives
and distortions - symbolism, naturalism, socialist realism, faits
divers, and the literature of language consciousness. On Realism
will appeal to those with an interest in literary history, the
history of literary theory, and literature and philosophy.
Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of
Germany's belated industrial revolution and suggests why German
literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition
of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism
offered in three genres of drama, poetry and prose fiction. The
book closely analyses specific texts, both in the original and in
translation, with comparisons with non-German works.
The first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest book, The
Birth of Tragedy (1872), this important volume by M. S. Silk and J.
P. Stern examines the work in detail: its place in Nietzsche's
philosophical career; its value as an account of ancient Greek
culture; its place in the history of German ideas, and its value as
a theory of tragedy and music. Presented in a fresh
twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially
commissioned preface written by Lesley Chamberlain, illuminating
its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry,
this accessible study has been revived for a new generation of
readers.
The first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest book, The
Birth of Tragedy (1872), this important volume by M. S. Silk and J.
P. Stern examines the work in detail: its place in Nietzsche's
philosophical career; its value as an account of ancient Greek
culture; its place in the history of German ideas, and its value as
a theory of tragedy and music. Presented in a fresh
twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially
commissioned preface written by Lesley Chamberlain, illuminating
its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry,
this accessible study has been revived for a new generation of
readers.
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.
Completed shortly before Professor Stern's death in 1991, this book studies 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. Finally, it juxtaposes Mann's Felix Krull and Kafka's story "Josephine" as a deliverance from the value-system of the title.
This is a reissue of Professor Stern's distinguished study of
German prose from the death of Goethe to the heyday of the
Wilhelminian Empire. Professor Stern argues that nineteenth-century
German prose is characterized by a particular combination of the
prophetic and the archaic, of the existential and the parochial,
and is only partially and sometimes not at all related to the
social and political realities of the age. In this sense, German
literature of the period stands apart from the main stream of
European realism and has, for that reason, received little
attention from the common reader outside its own country. The book
contains studies of Goethe, Grillparzer, Buchner, Schopenhauer,
Heine, Stifter and Fontane, all of whom re-interpreted the world
from points of view other than that of the common and commonly
explored social certainties of their age. Consequently, Professor
Stern suggests alternative criteria to the common notion of realism
with which to asses their work.
Professor Stern seeks to expose the roots of the Hitler myth. He
performs thoroughly and brilliantly the examination that Kenneth
Burke saw as a crying need on the brink of World War II. The
questions Professor Stern asks are fundamental and still of the
first importance in our own society. How could a predominantly
sober, hardworking, and well-educated nation be persuaded to follow
Hitler and his inhuman and destructuve program? What was the source
of his immense popularity? Why were his public utterances so
powerfully persuasive? What were the shared assumptions behind "The
Final Solution," Operation Barbarossa, "The Night of the Long
Knives"?
Professor Stern has done a pioneering study of the rhetoric of
Nazism, a rhetoric that coupled words and action. He examines the
speeches, writings, and conversations of Hitler and places them in
the context of traditional beliefs of the society into which
Hitler, the "ideal outsider," made his way. With terrifying logic
his career emerges as the creation of a man who translated the
private sphere of sentiment into the public sphere of political
action, the will to power into a weapon of mass hypnosis.
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