In the shadow of catastrophe
Subtitle: German intellectuals between apocalypse and enlightenment
By: Anson Rabinbach.
Series: Weimar and now ;; 14
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Arts and society -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Enlightenment -- Germany.; Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life.; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.
Description: In this volume, Anson Rabinbach, an eminent intellectual and cultural historian, addresses the writings of some of the central figures in twentieth-century German thought. Rabinbach begins with a wide-ranging introduction, in which he discusses the intimate connection between apocalypse and twentieth-century German philosophy and compares the two postwar periods.

He then goes on to show how diverse were the German intellectuals in their response to and understanding of catastrophe in their postwar writings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-253) and index.