Title: Literaturkritik und Bildungspolitik
First published: 1994
Description: In German. An exhaustive study of the group of literary critics and philosophers often called the Chicago School. Although the title singles out R. S. Crane, the book in fact treats the careers and work of all the the Chicago Critics of the "first generation," including Richard McKeon, Elder Olson, Clarence Faust, Norman Maclean, Bernard Weinberg and William Keast, as well as Mortimer Adler. Includes lists of publications for each of the critics, an extensive bibliography. Meticulous work with capable and well-founded accounts of the sometimes abstruse material.
Subjects: Criticism, History, History and criticism, Influence, Literature, Politics and literature, Theory, University of Chicago
Places: Chicago, Illinois
People: Aristotle, Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-), Ronald Salmon Crane (1886-), Richard McKeon, Elder Olson, Clarence Faust, Norman Maclean, Bernard Weinberg and William Keast, Mortimer Adler
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PE25 .A5 Heft 224, PN75.C6 .A5 Heft 224