The Disinherited Mind (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Erich Heller
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Principal Characters: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jakob Burckhardt, Rainer Maria Rilke, Oswald Spengler, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Values, Philosophy or philosophers, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Historians, Germany or German people, Thought or thinking
Form and Content
When The Disinherited Mind was published in 1952, the German-speaking countries in Central Europe had just witnessed the total collapse of their culture. This collapse was all the more crucial because, for the most part, it had been initiated by these countries themselves. It was a crisis created by the counterrevolutionary intellectuals and politicians of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and of the first Austrian republic (1919-1934) in their defense against Socialism and democracy. The rise and rule of Fascism in Central Europe has to a large degree...
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