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  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea

    Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927

    Edición de David S. Luft ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation called Hofmannsthal a "spiritual-moral authority" of a kind German culture had only rarely ... Leer más

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  • The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

    From the Enlightenment to Anschluss

    Tracing Austrian intellectual life from Maria Theresa to Hitler's annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, this innovative book offers a precise and engaging account of Austrian intellectual history since the Enlightenment.Here, David S. Luft begins by locating his narrative in the region known as Cisleithanian Austria, the area to the west of the Leitha River that was the basis for the modern ... Leer más

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