Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011

by Nicholas Saul

Darwin's idea has been called the best idea anyone ever had. In Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011 Nicholas Saul offers the first representative account of German literary responses to Darwinian evolutionism from Raabe and Jensen via Ernst J?nger and Botho Strau to Dietmar Dath.
Often identified with National Socialist ideology and hence notably absent from the public sphere after 1945, Darwinian thought is in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004427066
• ISBN13: 9789004427068
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 296 Pages