Masks of the Prophet : : The Theatrical World of Karl Kraus / / Karl GRIMSTAD.

'When the name "Hitler" is mentioned, nothing occurs to me' – so said Karl Kraus. For this leading Viennese Jewish critic and intellectual the touchstone of art was ethics. How could he be speechless in the face of a threat to all that ethics means? To answer this question, the a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The Gadfly: 1892 to June 1901
  • 2. The Knight-in-shining-armour. October 1901 to 1909
  • 3 The Prophet: 1910-8
  • 4 The Grand Inquisitor: 1919 to April 1930
  • 5 The Defeated Idealist: May 1930 to June 1936
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIX: A Chronology of Die Packel
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index