German Freedom and the Greek Ideal: The Cultural Legacy from Goethe to Mann

by W. McGrath, C. Applegate (Editor), S. Frontz (Editor), S. Marchand (Editor)

Overview

This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding of freedom as something deeper and more urgent that political life could offer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349474974
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/18/2013
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

William J. McGrath was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Rochester where he taught modern European thought and ancient history and was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 1978. Following a Fulbright fellowship year in Vienna, Professor McGrath completed his doctorate in 1965 at the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the University of Chicago before moving to Rochester in 1971.

Table of Contents

1. Freedom and Authority: Goethe's Faust and the Greek War of Independence 2. The Aesthetics of Freedom: The Architecture of Gottfried Semper 3. From Political Freedom to Self-Denial: Wagner's Ring and the Revolutions of 1848 4. Nietzsche and the Freedom of Self-Overcoming 5. From Self-Denial to Political Freedom: The Odyssey of Thomas Mann

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