Prophets Without Honour Freud Kafka Einstein And Their World

Author : Frederic V. Grunfeld
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
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Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World written by Frederic V. Grunfeld and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prophets Without Honour is a collective biography set in an extraordinary epoch of cultural history sometimes called “the Weimar Renaissance.” In a series of mini-portraits, Grunfeld has written a tribute to the German-speaking scientists, musicians, writers and artists who created European cultural life in the early twentieth century. All were evicted or murdered by the Nazis. Albert Einstein, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, and Franz Kafka are the best-known of his subjects but Grunfeld includes such lesser-known figures as Else Lasker-Schüler, Ernst Toller, Gertrud Kolmar, Alfred Döblin, Erich Mühsam, Carl Sternheim, Kurt Tucholsky and Hermann Broch. Grunfeld summarizes their lives, illuminates their work, traces their interactions, and sets it all against the background of Central European political and cultural life in the first three decades of the last century. “Grunfeld’s fascinating ‘collective biography’... is a peculiar and moving achievement because it puts faces and feet on ideas... one of the odd pleasures of this book is, in its digressions, Mr. Grunfeld’s curiosity.” — John Leonard, The New York Times “He has put the whole awful, tragic, somehow ennobling story together with a quiet passion and a wealth of unexpected details.” — Alfred Kazin “This is a fascinating introduction, written with clarity, compassion, and verve. Strongly recommended.” — Library Journal “Grunfeld has brought to life a whole generation that had been buried alive... To read this book is an intellectual adventure. One partakes of the great drama of art and politics played out by Germans and Jews before the darkness fell over Europe.” —Lucy Dawidowicz

Author : Frederic V. Grunfeld
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780070250871
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets Without Honour written by Frederic V. Grunfeld and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of the GermanJewish intellectuals of our age against the German schizophrenia that led to the Final Solution

Author : Dennis B. Klein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226439607
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Origins of the Psychoanalytic Movement written by Dennis B. Klein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis B. Klein explores the Jewish consciousness of Freud and his followers and the impact of their Jewish self-conceptions on the early psychoanalytic movement. Using little-known sources such as the diaries and papers of Freud's protégé Otto Rank and records of the Vienna B'nai B'rith that document Freud's active participation in that Jewish fraternal society, Klein argues that the feeling of Jewish ethical responsibility, aimed at renewing ties with Germans and with all humanity, stimulated the work of Freud, Rank, and other analysts and constituted the driving force of the psychoanalytic movement.

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Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Kiplinger's Personal Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.

Author : Emily D. Bilski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520222410
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin Metropolis written by Emily D. Bilski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918 vividly documents the diverse ways that Jewish artists, intellectuals, and cultural impresarios participated in this burst of creativity and promoted the emergence of modernism in Berlin and on the international scene."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596916613
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dangerous Otto Katz written by Jonathan Miles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the spy who became the inspiration for Casablanca's Victor Laszlo describes his involvement in the Spanish Civil War, Stalin's secret meetings, Trotsky's murder and the lives of Hollywood celebrities as he sought fame, fortune and glory .

Author : Pierluigi Barrotta
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039118472
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Freud and Italian Culture written by Pierluigi Barrotta and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the different ways in which psychoanalysis has been connected to various fields of Italian culture, such as literary criticism, philosophy and art history, as well as discussing scholars who have used psychoanalytical methods in their work. The areas discussed include: the city of Trieste, in chapters devoted to the author Italo Svevo and the artist Arturo Nathan; psychoanalytic interpretations of women terrorists during the anni di piombo; the relationships between the Freudian concept of the subconscious and language in philosophical research in Italy; and a personal reflection by a practising analyst who passes from literary texts to her own clinical experience. The volume closes with a chapter by Giorgio Pressburger, a writer who uses Freud as his Virgil in a narrative of his descent into a modern hell. The volume contains contributions in both English and Italian.

Author : Kurt Mendelssohn
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Walther Nernst: The Rise and Fall of German Science 1864-1941 written by Kurt Mendelssohn and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 19th century, under the benevolent patronage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became home to new scientific and technological ideas. In German universities, innovators like Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Walther Nernst revolutionized physics and chemistry with their theories of relativity, of the atomic structure and of the quanta. Walther Nernst, a founder of physical chemistry, received the Nobel prize in 1920 for his formulation of the third law of thermodynamics. He died in 1941 in Germany, disillusioned by Hitler’s destruction of German academic life. This biography of Walther Nernst, the author’s mentor, also provides an overview of German science and technology, from its stellar rise to its rapid fall when the Nazis came to power and the vast majority of German scientists went into exile to Britain (like the author), to the United States or elsewhere to continue the tradition and spirit of the scientific revolutions started in Germany’s institutions of higher learning. “A masterly description of the spectacular rise of German science and industry at the turn of the century and of life in Germany in the pre-1933 era.” — The Times (London) “Mendelssohn’s... fascinating book... is a study of the rise and fall of German science as well as a life of Walther Nernst... as he shows, the ‘mad fanaticism’ of the Nazis blinded them, and blinded them completely, to the enormous scientific potential they had inherited in the laboratories of Weimar Germany.” — Roger Williams, Encounter

Author : Glenda Abramson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134428650
Total Pages : 1011 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture written by Glenda Abramson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Jewish Culture - From the Eighteenth Century to the Present was first published in 1989. It is a single-volume encyclopedia containing biographical and topic entries ranging from 200 to 1000 word each.

Author : Ghilad H. Shenhav
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111342883
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis written by Ghilad H. Shenhav and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the intersections between crisis, scholarship, and action. The aim of this book is to think about the “moment of crisis,” through the concepts, writings, and methodologies awarded to us by Jewish thinkers in modernity. This book offers a broad gallery of accounts on the notion of crisis in Jewish modernity while emphasizing three terms: interpretation, heresy, and messianism. The main thesis of the volume is that the diasporic and exilic experience of the Jewish people turned their philosophers and theologians into “experts in crisis management” who had to find resources within their own religion, culture and traditions in order to react, endure and overcome short- and long-term historical crises. The underlining assumption of this book is therefore that Jewish thought obtains resources for conceptualizing and reacting to the current forms of crisis in the global, European, and Israeli spheres. The volume addresses a large readership in humanities, social and political sciences and religious studies, taking as its assumption that scholars in modern Jewish thought have an extended responsibility to engage in contemporary debates.