Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology : The Humanist Tradition in Peril

• Main Author: Zakai, Avihu (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Europe, Central > History.; Comparative literature.; Philology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319409580
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40958-0
• Physical Description: XIII, 218 p. online resource.

This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach 's life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically...