Title:
Dialectics and nihilism : essays on Lessing, Nietzsche, Mann, and Kafka / Peter Heller.
Author:
Heller, Peter, 1920- Author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Lessing : the virtuoso of dialectic. The letter and the spirit ; Dialogue ; Controversy ; The logical impulse ; The logic of providence ; Concept and image ; Enlightenment, purification, synthesis ; Infinity and self-surrender ; Summary ; Postscript : fire -- pt. II. Nietzsche : antithesis and reversal. The basic pattern ; The birth of tragedy ; A major reversal ; Postscript -- pt. III. Mann : Spheres of ambiguity. The ambivalent leitmotif ; The leitmotif as unifier ; Contrasts and reconciliations ; Evolution and recurrence ; Postscript -- pt. IV. Kafka : the futility of striving. Incongruity and alienation ; Despair and ambiguity ; Postscript.
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press,
Publication Place:
[Amherst, Mass.] :
Subject:
German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Nihilism in literature.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
Contents:
pt. I. Lessing : the virtuoso of dialectic. The letter and the spirit ; Dialogue ; Controversy ; The logical impulse ; The logic of providence ; Concept and image ; Enlightenment, purification, synthesis ; Infinity and self-surrender ; Summary ; Postscript : fire -- pt. II. Nietzsche : antithesis and reversal. The basic pattern ; The birth of tragedy ; A major reversal ; Postscript -- pt. III. Mann : Spheres of ambiguity. The ambivalent leitmotif ; The leitmotif as unifier ; Contrasts and reconciliations ; Evolution and recurrence ; Postscript -- pt. IV. Kafka : the futility of striving. Incongruity and alienation ; Despair and ambiguity ; Postscript.
Physical Description:
xii, 344 pages ;
Electronic Location:
http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz001263439inh.htm
Publication Date:
1969.
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