The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation

The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation
Author: W. H. Bruford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1975-03-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521204828

Professor Bruford shows how the ideal of self-cultivation entered into the thought of a number of highly individual German philosophers, theologians, poets and novelists.

Encyclopedia of German Literature

Encyclopedia of German Literature
Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1159
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113594122X

Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.

Karl Marx: The Story of His Life

Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
Author: Franz Mehring
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2013-10-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 113455883X

Containing footnotes and an extensive bibliography, this edition of Franz Mehring's classic biography is designed to assist the English-speaking reader towards a better understanding of Marx, his work and a history of Marxism. The book is divided into parts as follows: Early Years; A Pupil of Hegel; Exile in Paris; Friedrich Engels; Exile in Brussels; Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Exile in London; Marx and Engels; The Crimean War and the Crisis; Dynastic Changes; The Early Years of the International; 'Das Kapital'; The Zenith and Decline of the International; The Last Decade.

From Goethe to Gundolf

From Goethe to Gundolf
Author: Roger Paulin
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-08-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1800642156

From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories - all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible. As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the period 1700-1900, the collection not only includes accounts of the lives and work of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Gundolf (amongst others), serving to nuance our understanding of these figures in history, but also considers diverse (and often underexplored) topics, from academic freedom to the rise of travel literature. The essays have been reformulated, corrected, and updated to add references to recent works. However, the core foundations of the originals remain, and just as when they were first published, the value of these essays – to researchers, students, and all those who are interested in German literary history – cannot be overstated.

The German Center Party, 1870-1933

The German Center Party, 1870-1933
Author: Ellen Lovell Evans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is the only book to deal with the Cath­olic clerical influence on the German Center party, a forerunner of Germany's present Christian Democratic Union. In addition to tracing the effect of the Catholic-clerical influence up on the parliamentary functioning of the Center party, Ms. Evans explores the relationship between the Center and other political parties--both in opposition and in coalition--and the efforts of the party's leaders to satisfy the diverse interest groups it represented. Ms. Evans notes that a combination of cir­cumstances made necessary a separate party for German Catholics: the resentment of Catholics concerning the events of German unification; the increased solidarity and militancy of the church under Pius IX; and the need for defense against the demands for anticlerical legislation made by German liberals. The original small party grew enormously. It changed both its nature and its platform during the years of the Kulturkampf, the campaign to weaken the Catholic church con­ducted by Bismarck and the liberal parties. As a consequence of the conflict, the party developed an ideological base flexible enough to encompass a strong civil rights platform, an opposition to militarism, a concern for social welfare, an affiliation with labor union Organi­zations, and even a tentative embrace of democracy. At the same time, the continued pursuit of clerical goals, and in particular the goal of maintaining denominational education, made it difficult for the Center to form enduring partnerships with either Liberals or Socialists, in spite of many mutual inter­ests. Nevertheless, the party accomplished many of its goals. Ms. Evans concentrates on some of these: The party's education policy, social policy, church-state relations, and corporativism.