Beyond Catastrophe

German Intellectuals and Cultural Renewal After World War II, 1945D1955

By: Mark W. Clark

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Paperback | 5 April 2006

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Beyond Catastrophe examines the post-World War II leadership efforts of four major German intellectuals: Karl Jaspers, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Meinecke, and Bertolt Brecht. Clark focuses on the symbolic, practical, and theoretical contributions of these men to post-war cultural reconstruction, and pays special attention to their key works of the period — The German Catastrophe, Doctor Faustus, The Question of German Guilt, and Turandot — in which they addressed the key issues of the period including responsibility and guilt for the National Socialist regime, German distinctiveness, the possibility of a renewed humanism, and the relationship of intellectuals to the broader society. Addressing an important lacuna in twentieth-century intellectual history, Beyond Catastrophe will appeal to scholars of history and German studies.

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This readable, well-researched study is an important contribution to German intellectual and political history. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
Demonstrating admirable prose and analysis, Mark Clark assesses anew the contributions - and limitations - of four pre-eminent intellectuals who sought to bridge the nearly unbridgeable abyss between pre-war Germany and the traumatized societies, east and west, that painfully emerged after 1945. -- James F. Tent, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

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