Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. This volume is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. The contributors analyze Brecht's work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later German poets.

Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. In these essays, a strong team of contributors take the poems as the focal point for a much wider study of politics and poetry under totalitarianism. They analyse Brecht's work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later German poets. This volume sheds light on Brecht's political investment in and aesthetic commitment to political poetry, and will complement the plentiful scholarship focusing on his drama.

The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music and politics of the twentieth century. This edition presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context. The volume also includes two essays on related topics that Nietzsche wrote during the same period.

Max Weber (1864-1920), generally known as a founder of modern social science, was concerned with political affairs throughout his life. The texts in this edition span his career and illustrate the development of his political thinking on the fate of Germany and the nature of politics in the modern Western state in an age of cultural "disenchantment." The introduction discusses the central themes of Weber's political thought, and a chronology, notes and an annotated bibliography place him in his political and cultural context.

The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music and politics of the twentieth century. This edition presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context. The volume also includes two essays on related topics that Nietzsche wrote during the same period.

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. 1 ill. The contributions to this volume have been commissioned in honour of Michael Butler, Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Birmingham, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Professor Butler has distinguished himself as an editor, interpreter and critic of post war German literature, most particularly in the area of German-Swiss writing. His three monographs on Max Frisch and the edited volumes Rejection and Emancipation. Writing in German-speaking Switzerland 1945-91, The Making of Modern Switzerland 1848-1995, and The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich Boll. Social Conscience and Narrative Achievement, all share the same concern with the moral dimension of imaginative literature, a focus which also unites the contributions to this celebratory volume. Michael Butler's signal contributions to German Studies have earned him a LittD from the University of Cambridge, the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Presidency from 1995 to 1998 of the Conference of University Teachers of German. Contents: Kurt Marti: Poesie ist Moral: Fast ein Manifest - um Michael Butler zu gruen - Malcolm Pender: 'Das Vorhandensein einer andem Welt': Max Frisch, the Second World War and morality in German-Swiss writing - Elsbeth Pulver: 'Schreiben ist eine Anmaung, vielleicht': Zu den Romanen von Gerhard Meier - Mary Stewart: 'Zum Zusehen verdammt': The ethics of narration in three novels by Margrit Schriber - Herbert Meier: Physiker bellen nicht - Martin Swales: From Goldach to Gullen - Wolfgang Muller-Funk: Die furchterliche Pflicht zur Freiheit: Uberlegungen zu Hermann Brochs Meta-Politik - HeinzLudwig Arnold: Der subversive Chronist: Uber Hans Joachim Schadlich - Maja Beutler: Theater und Moral als postmodernes Gespann - Paul Cooke: Countering 'Realitatsverlust': Wolfgang Hilbig and the 'postmodern condition' - Wilfried van der Will: Die Unausweichlichkeit der Provokation: Kultur-und literaturtheoretische Anmerkungen zu Martin Walsers Ein springender Brunnen und zu seiner Friedenspreisrede - Karl S. Guthke: 'Lying like an epitaph'? Cultural history in the cemetery - E.Y. Meyer: Gedichte - Ronald Speirs: Postscript.