Romanticism: A German Affair - Brossura

Safranski, Rudiger

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ISBN 10: 0810134128 ISBN 13: 9780810134126

Casa editrice: Northwestern Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

The renowned scholar Rüdiger Safranski’s Romanticism: A German Affair both offers an accessible overview of Romanticism and, more critically, traces its lasting influence, for better and for ill, on German culture. Safranski begins with the eighteenthcentury Sturm und Drang movement, which would sow the seeds for Romanticism in Germany. While Romanticism was a broad artistic, literary, and intellectual movement, German thinkers were especially concerned with its strong philosophical-metaphysical and religious dimension. Safranski follows this spirit in its afterlife in the work of Heinrich Heine, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, and through the later artistic upheavals of the twentieth century. He concludes by carefully considering Romanticism’s possible influence in the rise of National Socialism and the student revolt of 1968.

Romanticism: A German Affair is essential reading for anyone interested in the power of art, culture, and ideas in the life of a nation.

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L'autore

RÜDIGER SAFRANSKI is a distinguished philosopher and writer whose works have received numerous awards and have been translated into nineteen languages. His books published in English include Nietzsche: A Political Biography (2001), Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil (1998), and Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy (1990). He lives in Germany.

ROBERT E. GOODWIN is a member of the faculty of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is the author of The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama (1998) and the translator of Markus Werner’s novel On the Edge (2012).

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• Editore: Northwestern Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0810134128
• ISBN 13: 9780810134126
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 361