Product Description: Nietzsche regarded 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work, and his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture. Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies, parables, epigrams and dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines, including the Overman, nihilism, and the eternal return of the same...read more

Product Description: "German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age" assesses the post-war transformation of German studies from 1945–1995. Essays address the intersecting problems of nationalism and antisemitism in modern and contemporary Germany; innovative views on the hybrid state of German cultural production and the German "Other"; and insights into the apparently "forbidden" areas of artistic creation after Adorno's initial anti–graven image dictum in the face of Shoah atrocities...read more

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Product Description: Argues that Austrian lyric poet Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), usually considered a typical fin-de-siFcle aesthete, was an early and consistent opponent of aestheticism, and was, in fact, an heir of Nietzsche in his search for a legitimate source for values...read more

Product Description: Here is a comprehensive introduction for the English reader to the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin. The poet is studied in the context of the romantic age, but as one who imparted depth to the movement and influenced the critical debates of the 20th century...read more

Product Description: This is an insider's candid account of the years 1938-1945 showing how the anschluss changed the lives of Austrians. The author describes the weaknesses and corruption as well as the strengths and virtues of his contemporaries. The saga of those who really joined the Nazi movement is balanced by an authentic account of the Austrian resistance movement, which has not yet received the acknowledgment it merits...read more

Product Description: OUT-OF-PRINT.'This is the most comprehensive and critical study of Nietzche's relationship to German romanticism I have seen so far. It accomplishes an intensive and comprehensive examination of a question that has haunted Nietzsche research since the beginning of the century and comes to reliable results...read more