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

by Avihu Zakai

Book Overview

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 with his struggle against the premises of Aryan philology, based on v?lkisch mysticism and Nazi historiography, which eliminated the Old Testament from German...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319822276
• ISBN13: 9783319822273
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"