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A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature ...
Elliot Y. NeamanA Dubious Past examines from a new perspective the legacy of Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century German intellectual life.
The Devil's Captain: Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944
Allan MitchellAuthor of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Jünger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth ...
The Glass Bees
Ernst JüngerWhen The Glass Bees was first published in 1960, junger's German critics dismissed the book's vision as lacking contemporary relevance. Today, however, the future it imagines seems very much like the present we now know.
Ernst Jünger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-1945
Thomas R. NevinHis writings, as this book indicates, put him at an unimpeachable remove from the Nazis, but neo-Nazi rightists in Germany have rushed to embrace him.
Aladdin's Problem
Ernst JüngerFriedrich Baroh, an East German soldier, defects to the West, where he obtains a college degree and decides to build Terrestra, an international, nondenominational necropolis, in a remote area of Turkey
Eumeswil
Ernst JüngerA political novel set in a futuristic state, run by a tyrant and narrated by the tyrant's historian. The novel's originality lies in its willingness to question such generally accepted ideas as democracy and mass education.
Storm of Steel
Ernst JungerThey seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest ...' Storm of Steel is one of the greatest works to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War.
Fire
Sebastian JungerThe millions of readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm have long awaited this new work of non-fiction by Sebastian Junger. This time, we step off the deck of the Andrea Gail into an inferno.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938: On the Edge of the Abyss of ...
Norbert WolfErnst Ludwig Kirchner was born on May 6, 1880, in Aschaffenburg, Lower Franconia. His family - as he later never tired of emphasizing - could be traced back on his father's side to the sixteenth century. His father, Ernst, an engineer and ...
Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings
Ernst KurthErnst Kurth Lee A. Rothfarb. Deutschen (1890), a "rhapsody of irrationality," ... Stern's book contains the most extensive critical exposition in English of Langbehn's background and career. In four detailed chapters Stern covers Langbehn's ...
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, ...
PreviewA Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies Ernst von Weiszäcker ... Steuersystems'', in: Mauch, Samuel; Iten, Rolf; Weizsäcker, Ernst U. von; Jesinghaus, Jochen (Eds.): Ökologische Steuerreform (Zurich: Rüegger Verlag).
Ernst Equation and Riemann Surfaces: Analytical and ...
Christian KleinErnst. Equation. As already noted, the Einstein equations do not appear to be generically integrable. To find exact solutions, spacetimes with symmetries have to be considered, see [35] for a review. As Geroch has shown [64], already a space- ...
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition
Ernst BreisachIn this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition
Ernst BreisachIn this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.
Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth
M. E. WarlickWITHIN the remarkable continuity of Ernst's visual motifs — birds, machines, vegetation, vertical forests, horizontal landscapes, and seascapes — the feminine image was persistently embedded. Derived from both Freudian and alchemical ...
Sufism: An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam
Carl W. ErnstWith that fact in mind, Carl Ernst explores the broadest range of Sufi philosophies and practices to provide one of the most complete and comprehensive introductions to Sufism available in English.
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life
Robert E. LernerThis is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time.
Refugees from the Third Reich in Britain
PreviewJennifer Tavlor Into Exile: Ernst Sommer in London This paper examines the life and work of the Jewish German-Bohemian writer Ernst Sommer in England and, by reference to previously unpublished correspondence, details the extent of his ...
Ernst Mach’s World Elements: A Study in Natural Philosophy
E.C. BanksLike Richard Hönigswald's Kritik der Machschen Philosophie (1903) and Herbert Buzello's Kritische Untersuchungen von Ernst Machs Erkenntnistheorie (1911), some trenchant criticism came from neoKantian philosophers anxious to defend ...
Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World
Carl W. ErnstAvoiding the traps of sensational political exposes and specialized scholarly Orientalism, Carl Ernst introduces readers to the profound spiritual resources of Islam while clarifying diversity and debate within the tradition.
Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared
David HopkinsThe Glass in fact provides an opening for the next phase of the discussion, since the prominent bird images in Ernst's picture — the descendants of many earlier bird and bird/human figures as will be shown — bear surprising links with ...
The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch
Wayne HudsonEhrhard Bahr, Ernst Bloch (Berlin: Colloquium, 1974) p. 17, in the Köpfe des XX. Jahrhunderts series. This volume contains useful, though highly selective, biographical material, much of it supplied by Karola Bloch. For Bloch's life generally, ...
A Lifelong Interest: Conversations on Art and Science with ...
Ernst Hans GombrichA series of probing conversations held by Didier Eribon with Sir Ernst Gombrich, OM, CBE, FBA, seeking to discover how his intellect and tastes had been nurtured during his early years in Vienna, and how they developed after he emigrated to ...
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