The third Walpurgis Night : the complete text /

"Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's Third Walpurgis Night was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when final...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bridgham, Frederick George Thomas, 1943- (Traductor), Timms, Edward (Traductor), Perloff, Marjorie (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Colección:Margellos world republic of letters book.
Temas:
1933-1945
Political satire, German.
National socialism.
Nazisme.
National Socialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays.
Politics and government.
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
Allemagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1933-1945.
Germany.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Marjorie Perloff
  • Translators' preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Stunned by the seizure of power
  • 2. The satirist's dilemma
  • 3. And what about culture?
  • 4. Goebbels, manipulative modernism, and bucolic Jew-baiting
  • 5. Political leadership and artistic transfiguration
  • 6. Heidegger and the verbal accomplices of violence
  • 7. Gottfried Benn and the sacrifice of intellect
  • 8. Papen's two-faced politics and the military tradition
  • 9. National German Jews
  • 10. Turning headlines into lies
  • 11. Murder with mendacity
  • 12. Purveyors of culture and the PEN Congress
  • 13. Verbal imperialism : "Germany, awaken!"
  • 14. Self-refuting rhetoric and the price of butter
  • 15. Rubbing salt in the wound
  • 16. Poets and barbarians
  • 17. Translations from the Hebrew?
  • 18. Soundbite-hooks and foreign policy
  • 19. "When Jewish blood..."
  • 20. Austrian independence and the innocent aggressor
  • 21. Protective custody
  • 22. Sexual hatred, "unforced" conversation, and an act of defiance
  • 23. Dollfuss and the Social Democrats
  • 24. Casting out the Devil through Beelzebub
  • 25. Between two fascisms : language brings everything to light
  • 26. Headlong into servitude : when madmen lead the blind
  • 27. Out of the abyss : Prussian eagles and parched tongues
  • 28. Where lawlessness makes law its instrument
  • 29. Prophets of doom and the triumph of aryan teutonism
  • Notes
  • Glossary and Index

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