In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780520226906
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; History of ideas, intellectual history; Warfare & Defence; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History: World; Philosophy; History - General History; Europe; Germany; Europe - Germany; History / General; History & Surveys - General
First sentence: In the years approaching the First World War, the self-confidence and security of German Jewry were challenged by a new Jewish sensibility that can be described as at once radical, secular, and messianic in both tone and content.