Culture and catastrophe : German and Jewish confrontations with National Socialism and other crises / Steven E. Aschheim
1996, 1st edition. Houndmills : Macmillan. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426031
ISBN: 0814706398
Physical description; 210 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-205) and index. Contents; 1. Culture and Catastrophe -- 2. German Jews beyond Bildung and Liberalism: The Radical Jewish Revival in the Weimar Republic -- 3. 'The Jew Within': The Myth of 'Judaization' in Germany -- 4. Nietzsche, Anti-Semitism and Mass Murder -- 5. The German-Jewish Dialogue at its Limits: The Case of Hermann Broch and Volkmar von Zuehlsdorff -- 6. Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers: Friendship, Catastrophe and the Possibilities of German-Jewish Dialogue -- 7. Small Forays, Grand Theories and Deep Origins: Current Trends in the Historiography of the Holocaust. Subjects; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900 Views on Judaism. Broch, Hermann 1886-1951 Criticism and interpretation. Arendt, Hannah. Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975. Broch, Hermann 1886-1951. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900. Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900. Ethnic relations. Historiography. Jews Intellectual life. Judaism. Jews Germany Intellectual life. National socialism. National socialism Germany.
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