The Pen Confronts the Sword: Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism

by Avihu Zakai

Book Overview

During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirer's The Myth of the State (1946); Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946); and Max Horkheimer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438471645
• ISBN13: 9781438471648
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"