Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-War Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika

by Edward Timms

Book Overview

The focus of the first volume of 'Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist' was on the cataclysmic final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This book takes up the story in November 1918, when the satirist responded to the creation of the new republics with a defiant hope, invoking international law against the dual threat of reactionary politics and irresponsible media. While contemporaries such as Walter Benjamin regarded Kraus as a heroically isolated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300204604
• ISBN13: 9780300204605
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 662 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"