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The Problem Of Conscience In The Novels Of Alfred Andersch Microform
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Author : Elroy J. Carlson
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Canada
Release Date : 1982
The Problem Of Conscience In The Novels Of Alfred Andersch Microform written by Elroy J. Carlson and has been published by National Library of Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Conscience in literature categories.
Critical evaluations of works by Alfred Andersch virtually ignore conscience, a topic which Andersch addresses in each of his five novels. Conscience is based on values. In Western society there are two views on the origin of values. One view is based on humanistic ideals which hold that values are an inherent part of man, centered in his intellect. The other perspective anchors the source of values in a divine being, who exists independently of man and who uses various means to transmit these values to man. Andersch reveals the bases for his own conscience in Die Kirschen der Freiheit . It is obvious that his values are derived from the humanistic tradition. He eschews not only religion but also economic and political doctrine, which in Western society have taken on an orthodoxy as inflexible as religious dogma. In Sansibar oder der letzte Grund the contest between humanistically based conscience and religiously and politically inspired conscience takes place among several characters. By using a large cast of characters, Andersch demonstrates the consequences of a conscience based on each view. His message continues to be that a deterministic source of values is not a sound basis for an effective conscience. The story of Franziska in Die Rote demonstrates the same point, although the narrative is less direct. Franziska's conscience takes direction from outside, bourgeois sources. Unfortunately, her dependency on direction from outside sources is so strong that she is unable to attain the independent life she wants. In Efraim Andersch demonstrates the consequences of having no conscience at all. Efraim possesses no central core of values. He believes that coincidence and caprice rule men's lives and that it is useless for man to try to influence events. As a result, Efraim leads a rootless, uncommitted existence, which brings him no satisfaction. Through Efraim, Andersch reiterates the view that a humanistically based conscience is essential for a truly moral life. Winterspelt repeats this message through character types borrowed from previous Andersch novels. It is clear to Andersch that man devises religious and political doctrines to explain and codify human behavior. It is equally clear to him that such codifications are perceived all too often as ends in themselves, as immutable loci to which man subjugates personal will in order to uphold the notion that a higher authority exists to pass judgement on man's actions. Andersch sees great danger in elevating these humanly contrived doctrines to the level where they become deterministic and dictate human action by a sequence of causes independent of free will. To him it is important to maintain the correct perception of such mental constructs. He believes the human act precedes the justification for it; the rightness or wrongness of an act is judged later upon reflection by man. To Andersch there is no god in the Christian sense who stands in judgement over human actions. Nor is there an economic or political order which determines how man should behave. In Andersch's view, such a god and such doctrines are created by man because of his need to provide explanations for human acts. Andersch perceives man as the ultimate source of the values represented by these mental constructs and the conscience to which the values give rise. He suggests in his novels that it is far healthier for man to believe in himself than in a divine spirit or alluring doctrine. From this belief will presumably come a more honest and therefore better basis for conscience.
Canadiana
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Canadiana written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Canada categories.
Flight To Afar
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Author : Alfred Andersch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Flight To Afar written by Alfred Andersch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
A Pastor protecting an ancient icon, a communist and a young Jewess attempting to escape Germany in the late 1930's come together in a northern fishing village. Their encounter leads to their mutual dependence and self discovery
Speaking The Unspeakable In Postwar Germany
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Author : Sonja Boos
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-10
Speaking The Unspeakable In Postwar Germany written by Sonja Boos and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with History categories.
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany. The author's analysis of original audio recordings of the speech events (several of which will be available on a companion website) improves our understanding of the spoken, performative dimension of public speeches.While emphasizing the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, Boos does not neglect the pragmatic conditions of aesthetic and intellectual production—most notably, the felt need to respond to the breach in tradition caused by the Holocaust. The book thereby illuminates the process by which a set of writers and intellectuals, instead of trying to mend what they perceived as a radical break in historical continuity or corroborating the myth of a "new beginning," searched for ways to make this historical rupture rhetorically and semantically discernible and literally audible.
A History Of Women S Writing In Germany Austria And Switzerland
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Author : Jo Catling
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-03-23
A History Of Women S Writing In Germany Austria And Switzerland written by Jo Catling and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume makes the wide-ranging work of German women writers visible to a wider audience. It is the first work in English to provide a chronological introduction to and overview of women's writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. Extensive guides to further reading and a bibliographical guide to the work of more than 400 women writers form an integral part of the volume, which will be indispensable for students and scholars of German literature, and all those interested in women's and gender studies.
Testimony Bearing Witness
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Author : Sybille Krämer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-08-23
Testimony Bearing Witness written by Sybille Krämer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-23 with Philosophy categories.
Testimony/Bearing Witness establishes a dialogue between the different approaches to testimony in epistemology, historiography, law, art, media studies and psychiatry.
Hitler S Bandit Hunters
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Author : Philip W. Blood
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-03
Hitler S Bandit Hunters written by Philip W. Blood and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03 with History categories.
In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for "combating banditry" (Bandenbekämpfung), became the third component of the Nazi regime's three-part strategy for German national security, with genocide (Endlösung der Judenfrage, or "the Final Solution of the Jewish Question") and slave labor (Erfassung, or "Registration of Persons to Hard Labor") being the better-known others. An original and thought-provoking work grounded in extensive research in German archives, Hitler's Bandit Hunters focuses on this counterinsurgency campaign, the anvil of Hitler's crusade for empire. Bandenbekämpfung portrayed insurgents as political and racial bandits, criminalized to a greater degree than enemies of the state; moreover, violence against them was not constrained by the prevailing laws of warfare. Philip Blood explains how German forces embraced the Bandenbekämpfung doctrine, demonstrating the equal culpability of both the SS police forces and the "heroic" Waffen-SS combat arm and shattering the contrived postwar distinctions between them. He challenges the traditional view of Himmler as an armchair general and bureaucrat, exposing him as the driving force behind one of the most successful security campaigns in history, and delves into the contentious issue of the complicity of ordinary German police, soldiers, and citizens, as well as the citizens of occupied territories, in these state-sponsored manhunts. This book provokes new debates on the Nazi terrorization of Europe, the blind acquiescence of many, and the courageous resistance of the few.
What Is Pastoral
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Author : Paul Alpers
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997-06
What Is Pastoral written by Paul Alpers and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general. In What Is Pastoral?, distinguished literary historian Paul Alpers argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction—that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. Ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century. Pastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a mode bearing witness to the possibilities and problems of human community and shared experience in the real world. A rich and engrossing book, What Is Pastoral? will soon take its place as the definitive study of pastoral literature. "Alpers succeeds brilliantly. . . . [He] offers . . . a wealth of new insight into the origins, development, and flowering of the pastoral."—Ann-Maria Contarino, Renaissance Quarterly
Languages Of Dress In The Middle East
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Author : Bruce Ingham
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Languages Of Dress In The Middle East written by Bruce Ingham and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Social Science categories.
Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.
After Nature
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Author : W. G. Sebald
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-02-07
After Nature written by W. G. Sebald and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Poetry categories.
After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz After Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary work and the start of his highly personal and brilliant writing journey. In this long prose poem, Sebald introduces many of the themes that he explores in his subsequent books. Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, each of the three distinct parts of After Nature give centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being W.G. Sebald himself. 'A deeply intelligent book, but also a marvellously warm, exciting and compassionate one' Andrew Motion 'A début of rare poetic grandeur' Irish Times 'Astonishing writing. A true poet at work' Evening Standard 'Graceful, allusive, serious, but also immensely readable' Sunday Telegraph 'When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm' Literary Review W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, For Years Now and A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.