Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0156261006 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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From 1960 onwards he was based in the United States, primarily at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he was initially Professor of German, and subsequently Avalon Professor of the Humanities until his retirement in 1979.For Heller, German letters as an academic discipline was something of an avocatio
Profound reflections on the human situation Heller's ostensbile subject is Modern German Literature and Thought. But his profound insights on Goethe, Nietzsche, Kafka, Schopenhauer, Rilke, raise questions about the meaning of creative culture in general. He opens with a divided Goethe fearing t. reading man said German Literature Interpreted For Readers of English. Arguably the most important book of lit crit of German literature published in English in the "German Literature Interpreted For Readers of English" according to reading man. Arguably the most important book of lit crit of German literature published in English in the 20th century. (Since I don't read German, I can't say the most important on the subject.)Heller's essay on Kafka is one of the best I've read. He's equally d. 0th century. (Since I don't read German, I can't say the most important on the subject.)Heller's essay on Kafka is one of the best I've read. He's equally d
Heller examines the sense of values embodied in the works of key German writers and thinkers from Goethe to Kafka, particularly the consciousness of life's depreciation.
He kept a certain distance from the scholarly community around him, believing (with Jacob Burckhardt) this community's pedantry and unremitting quest for precision to be ‘one of the most cunning enemies of truth’, their cumulative effect being ‘the absence of true comprehensi . About the Author Erich Heller (March 27, 1911 — November 5, 1990) was a British essayist, known particularly for his critical studies in German-language philosophy and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He graduated a doctor of law from the German University in Prague (Deutsche Universität in Prag, Juridische Fakultät) on February 11, 1935, at the age of 23. From 1960 onwards he was based in the United States, primarily at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he was initially Professor of German, and subsequently Avalon Professor of the Humanities until his retirement in 1979.For Heller, German letters as a