Holderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche: The Struggle with the Daemon

by Stefan Zweig

Book Overview

This is the second volume in a trilogy in which Stefan Zweig builds a composite picture of the European mind through intellectual portraits selected from among its most representative and influential figures. In H lderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche, Zweig concentrates on three giants of German literature to portray the artist and thinker as a figure possessed by a powerful inner vision at odds with the materialism and scientific positivism of his time,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141281135X
• ISBN13: 9781412811354
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"