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The apocalypse in Germany /
"A cross-disciplinary study, The Apocalypse in Germany analyzes fundamental aspects of the apocalypse as a religious, political, and aesthetic phenomenon. Author Klaus Vondung draws from religious, philosophical, and political texts, as well as works of art and literature. Using classic Jewish...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Columbia, Mo. :
University of Missouri Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE Approaches; 1 How Exciting the Vision of the New World Is! Or, What Ernst Toller Connects with John of Patmos; 2 Is the New Jerusalem a Utopia?; 3 Can the Apocalypse Be Secularized?; 4 Symbols and Experiences; PART TWO The Apocalyptic View of History; A. Structures; 5 History Has No Meaning; Therefore, It Must Be Destroyed; 6 History Must Have Meaning, So Meaning Is Created; 7 World History Is the Last Judgment ; B. Movements; 8 The Birth of Nationalism from the Spirit of the Apocalypse; 9 From Holy Spirit to National Spirit.
- 10 Protest and Futility11 Our Army and Navy Are Also a Spiritual Power : The Apocalypse of 1914; 12 An Epilogue-German Spirit: Sieg Heil! ; 13 The Spirit of Utopia; PART THREE Aesthetics of the Apocalypse; C. Forms; 14 Images: Torrents of Mud and Crystal; 15 Style: Dramatic; 16 Rhetoric: Consolation and Agitation; D. Representations; 17 Dreams of Death and Destruction; 18 If War Came! Oh, for Something Higher ... : Visions of the New Man; 19 Shaping the Shapeless; 20 Paradise Is Wo i Every Form : Redemption through Art; 21 Surrender of the Imagination?
- PART FOUR The Existential Apocalypse22 Transformation and Revolt; 23 Lust for Power and the Spirit of Sacri ce; 24 The Last and the First; Bibliography; Index.