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  • The Mind in Exile
    Stanley Corngold
    A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United StatesIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as 'the greatest living man of letters,' Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where, for ne...
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    32,04 €

  • Expeditions to Kafka
    Stanley Corngold
    In this new volume of Kafka studies, which is addressed to both beginning readers of Kafka as well as Kafka scholars, Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka’s work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Goethe’s The Sufferings of Young Werther; Nietzsche’s conception of aphoristic form; bureaucratic organization; accident and risk; the logic of possession and inheritance; and ...
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    38,92 €

  • Weimar in Princeton
    Stanley Corngold
    Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as 'the greatest living man of letters.' This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little known story of Mann’s early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted émigrés in Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, wi...
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    39,48 €

  • Walter Kaufmann
    Stanley Corngold
    The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual lifeWalter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He single-handedly rehabilitated Nietzsche’s reputation after World War II and was enormously infl...
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    33,76 €

  • Lambent Traces
    Stanley Corngold
    On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story 'The Judgment,' which came out of him 'like a regular birth.' This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka’s own search to reproduce the ecst...
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    60,37 €