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German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation
This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in Germany was infused with a thoroughly messianic strain. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, that strain is traced through the work of four important Expressionist playwrights: Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller and Franz Werfel. Moreover, these dramatists are brought into new and sustained dialogues with the theorists and philosophers of messianism who were their contemporaries: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, Gershom Scholem. In arguing, for example, that concepts like Bloch’s utopian self-encounter (Selbstbegegnung) and Benjamin’s messianic now-time (Jetztzeit) reappear as the framework for Expressionism’s staging of collective redemption in a new age, Anderson forges a previously underappreciated link in the study of Central European thought in the early twentieth century.
Robert Bruce
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Robert Bruce Strout Collection
Sea journals, diary, account book, obituaries, and related papers. Includes journal describing Pacific whale voyages (1855-1862), out of New Bedford, Mass., by ship Alice Mandell and barks Cleone, Martha, and Salamandre; diary detailing voyage of the Cleone, chiefly an indictment against the master and first mate; and ships accounts (1868-1871) of the brig Camille, engaged in West Indian trade. Persons represented include Strout's wife, Jane F. Strout.
Messianism, Apocalypse and Redemption in 20th Century German Thought
At the beginning of the twentieth century the tropes of messianism, apocalypse and redemption, which had been so central to the West's religious formation, seemed spent forces in Germany. Nietzsche had pronounced God as dead and theology seemed to be travelling the same secular route as philosophy. But World War I changed that. This book introduces some of Germany's key thinkers in theology, philosophy, literature and social and political thought through their engagement with these previously discarded concepts. They initiated a new and urgent dialogue between philosophy and theology. This imaginative and innovative collection brings together essays by established scholars on Messiamism, Red...
