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“patrick hayden roy”

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  • The Luther Myth

    The Image of Martin Luther from Religious Reformer to Völkisch Icon

    by Patrick Hayden-Roy ...
    In the period from the close of the Napoleonic Wars up through the immediate post-World-War II era the image of Martin Luther was transposed in Germany from a religious reformer and advocate of freedom to a symbol of völkisch nationalist identity, such that with the seizure of power by the Nazis, Luther was used to portray a symbiosis between the new regime and the tradition of Protestant ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Read more

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  • What Remains

    The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt

    by Hannah Arendt, Samantha Rose Hill ...
    Translated by Genese Grill ...
    A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English.Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely private. Though she often acknowledged that the language of poetry—especially that of Dickinson, Goethe, and Lowell—informed her work, only a few people knew that ... Read more

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  • The Aryan Jesus

    Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

    by Professor Susannah Heschel ...
    Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life. In The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel shows ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Logischer Empirismus, Lebensreform und die deutsche Jugendbewegung

    Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement

    Edited by Christian Damböck, Günther Sandner, Meike G. Werner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed their early philosophical views in this setting. By combining scholarly essays with unpublished and hard to access manuscripts, ... Read more

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  • Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile

    From Prague to Beverly Hills

    by Lionel Steiman ...
    Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it in his entire life's work. The origina sof that peculiar faith and the response it engendered in ... Read more

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  • Karl Barth

    A Life in Conflict

    by Christiane Tietz ...
    Translated by Dr Victoria J. Barnett ...
    From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1969) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and philosophers became intoxicated by the experience of community and transcendence, Barth fought against all attempts to locate the divine in culture or individual sentiment. This freed him for a deep worldly engagement: he ... Read more

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  • Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas

    An Annotated German-Language Reader

    Edited by Henk de Berg, Duncan Large ...
    German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history of ideas. The present volume, the first of its kind, is a response to this situation. After an ... Read more

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  • Twisted Cross

    The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich

    by Doris L. Bergen ...
    How did Germany’s Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the 600,000 self-described 'German Christians,' who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. In a process that became more daring as Nazi plans for genocide unfolded, this group of Protestant lay people and clergy rejected the Old ... Read more

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  • Metaphysics of the Profane

    The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem

    by Eric Jacobson ...
    Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact on the study of religion, philosophy, and literary criticism.Drawing from Benjamin's and Scholem's ideas on messianism, language, and divine justice, this book traces the intellectual exchange through ... Read more

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  • In the Shadow of the Holocaust

    Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany

    by Thomas C. Fox ...
    This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East German Jewish writers: Anna Seghers (1900-1983), Stefan Heym (1913-2001), Stephan Hermlin (1915-1997), Jurek Becker (1937-1997), Peter Edel (1921-1983), and Fred ... Read more

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