Both works in this volume - a play by Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) and an unusual contemporary study of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner (1907-99) - bear testimony to the disturbing events that were to
This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. "German Essays on Film" is divided into five parts: Late
Here is the essential Heidegger, a most controversial figure. Following a cogent introduction by Manfred Stassen, this collection is divided into three sections: The Man - Politics and Ideology; The M
Includes: Gunther Anders, "Victims of Aggression"; Hannah Arendt, "From the Life of the Mind"; Ernst Bloch, "On Fine Arts in the Machine Age, From &quo
This collection of High Modernism among Austrian and German writers includes:--Pogrom and a selection from The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig--"The Murder of a Buttercup" a
German sociology--indeed sociology as a discipline--belongs to modern times. This unusual anthology includes works by Theodor W. Adorno, Uta Gerhardt, Jnrgen Habermas, Max Horkheimer, Karl Ulrich Maye
This volume in The German Library includes the following authors and plays, which best represent the Expressionist movement of the early 20th century:-- Georg Kaiser: Gas I and Gas II-- Ernst Toller:
Ludwig Feuerbach has stood in the shadow of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the past one-hundred and fifty years. This volume in The German Library redresses this situation by including some of the
Heroic poetry from the great epics of German literature. Includes Jungere Hildebrandslied, The Battle of Ravenna, Bitterolf and Dietlieb, and The Rose Garden (Version A).
Philosophical Writings, part of the German Library Series contains essential portions of the theses that make Nietzsche the most controversial of philosophers. It includes: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyon
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was one of the shapers of modern consciousness through his development of the concept of the unconscious and the therapy that he evolved based on this discovery. Essential wr
Foreword by Jost HermandThe libretti of the greatest German operas: Mozart's The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Fidelio, Wagner's Parsifal, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and Schoenberg's Moses and Aron.
For many years, Gunter Grass (born 1927) has been one of the world's most vital literary figures. From the publication of The Tin Drum through his latest pleas for sane government and civil treatment
Foreword by Gunter GrassThis anthology gives a sense of the broad range of prose writing, the many interests of the seventeenth century intellectual, a rich diversity of genres, fictions and non-ficti
Presents Shiller's dramatic masterpiece, the "Wallenstein" trilogy, and "Mary Stuart" in their entirety. Includes notes on the historical background of both plays.
This anthology of German verse in English translation covers a period that includes perhaps two-thirds of the superlative poets of the German language. Here are 147 poems representing 27 poets from Ma
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. "Death in Venice", later filmed by Lucion Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde, was published i
The 20th century has brought us to the high point of the scientific-technological age but paradoxically marks the beginning of a critical loss of confidence in the very powers of science. This volume
Up to the end of the nineteenth century, Germany largely perceived itself as "the nation of poets and philosophers." But with the enormous popularity of Schubert and Wagner, this beg
Three plays by the Nobel Prize-winning German writer (1862-1946), with an introduction by the editors. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Hegel's system of philosophy was not only the leading form of metaphysics during his lifetime, but it has taken on increasing significance in our own time. The main element in this compact collection
Includes Adalbert Stifer's Preface to Many-Colored Stones, Granite and Limestone; Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's The Jews Beech; Jeremias Gotthelf's The Black Spider; Franz Grillparzer's The Poor Music
The texts in this volume constitute highlights in the movement called transcendental idealism. Includes: Fichte's, "Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar's Vocation," and "A Crystal Clea
