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Lost Son

Hermann Broch's Letters to His Son, 1925-1928

By: Hermann Broch

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Lost Son

Hermann Broch's Letters to His Son, 1925-1928

By: Hermann Broch

By any measure, Hermann Broch was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Author of The Sleepwalkers and The Spell, he stands, together with James Joyce and Marcel Proust, at the pinnacle of literary Modernism. Born in 1886, he saw the First World War destroy the culture and consciousness of what had come before, seeing the West thrust unwillingly into the modern age. By 1938 Broch found himself arrested and detained, during which time be began work on his greatest novel, The Death of Virgil. Dozens of friends from all over the world managed to help him find his release and he moved to the United States where he lived for the rest of his life. With his wife Franziska, Broch had only a single child, Armand. While Broch had become preoccupied with deep questions of philosophy, psychology, and politics, his son became a thoroughgoing materialist. Sent away to an elite boarding school when 14, Armand found himself surrounded by students from the richest families in Europe. He became devoted to sports, to fast luxury cars (his father did not even know how to drive), and to the first class lifestyle of his classmates. These letters show the profound breach that developed between father and son. They also provide a portrait of the Gilded Age, a time of remarkable change, as Europe headed on a course of horrible inevitability. Letters from Broch during this time are uncommon, so we also get a chance to follow the trajectory of his life as he prepares to leave his job as an industrialist and devote himself to study and to writing.

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Catapult

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1619021439

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The Guiltless

By: Hermann Broch

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The Guiltless

By: Hermann Broch

Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's postwar novel about the disintegration of European society in the three decades preceding the Second World War. Broch's characters - an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name; a high-school teacher and his lover who return from the brink of a suicide pact to carry on a dishonest relationship; Zerline, a lady's maid who enslaves her mistresses, prostitutes the young country girl Melitta, and metes out her own justice against the "empty wickedness" of her betters - are trapped in their indifference, prisoners of a sort of "wakeful somnolence." These men and women may mention the "imbecile Hitler," yet they prefer a nap or sexual encounter to any social action. Broch thought the kind of ethical perversity and political apathy exhibited by his characters paved the way for Nazism. He believed in the purifying power of writing and hoped that by revealing Germany's underlying guilt he could purge indifference from his own and future generations. In The Guiltless, Broch captures how apathy and ennui - very human failings - evolve into something dehumanizing and dangerous." --Book Jacket.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810160781

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9780810160781

The Unknown Quantity

By: Hermann Broch,Willa Muir

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The Unknown Quantity

By: Hermann Broch,Willa Muir

Mild and sensitive Richard Hieck endured a quietly difficult childhood in Germany. Raised in humble circumstances, Richard was profoundly influenced by his withdrawn mother and by his father, an enigma whose devotion centered not on his five children but on his mysterious career. From his father, Richard inherited an interest in the night sky, learning to love the constellations and to take comfort in the strength of Orion and the warm radiance of Venus. Richard's shadowy, elusive father also influenced him to pursue studies in mathematics, a field offering Richard the discipline he had craved as a child." "Published in 1933, The Unknown Quantity is Hermann Broch's study of the underlying chaos - and, finally, the impossibility - of life within a society whose values are in decay. As Richard seeks to reconcile the conflicting demands of love and science, of passion and reason, societal and family values begin to undermine him and those in orbit around him." --Book Jacket.

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The Sleepwalkers

By: Hermann Broch

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The Sleepwalkers

By: Hermann Broch

With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss. Whether he is writing about a neurotic army officer (The Romantic), a disgruntled bookkeeper and would-be assassin (The Anarchist), or an opportunistic war-deserter (The Relaist), Broch immerses himself in the twists of his characters' psyches, and at the same time soars above them, to produce a prophetic portrait of a world tormented by its loss of faith, morals, and reason.

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Vintage

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0307789160

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Death of Virgil

A Novel

By: Hermann Broch

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Death of Virgil

A Novel

By: Hermann Broch

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound. Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem -- and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern.

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Vintage

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0679755489

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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time

The European Imagination, 1860-1920

By: Hermann Broch

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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time

The European Imagination, 1860-1920

By: Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is remembered among English-speaking readers for his novels The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, and among German-speaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy, his aesthetic theory, and his varied criticism. This study reveals Broch as a major historian as well, one who believes that true historical understanding requires the faculties of both poet and philosopher. Through an analysis of the changing thought and career of the Austrian poet, librettist, and essaist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Broch attempts to define and analyze the major intellectual issues of the European fin de siècle, a period that he characterizes according to the Nietzschean concepts of the breakdown of rationality and the loss of a central value system. The result is a major examination of European thought as well as a comparative study of political systems and artistic styles.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226075168

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Death of Virgil

By: Hermann Broch

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Death of Virgil

By: Hermann Broch

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The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch

By: Hermann Broch

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The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch

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Hermann Broch, born on November 1, 1886, in Vienna, Austria, and died on May 30, 1951, in New Haven, Connecticut, was an Austrian writer, one of the greatest modernist writers of all time. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Hermann Broch is a novelist of the stature of Joyce and Proust. The Death of Virgil is considered by many as his masterpiece. The novel recreates the last day of the poet Virgil's life, hours during which he considers destroying the Aeneid and reflects on his life dedicated to art. The Death of Virgil is part of the famous collection: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

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6558943336

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Spell

By: Herman Broch

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Spell

By: Herman Broch

Marius Ratti, a drifter and Hitler-like figure, arrives in a small mountain village, contaminating it with his virulent, pestilential influence, in this parable of Hitler's rise to power

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0865473595

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Lost Son

Hermann Broch's Letters to His Son, 1925-1928

By: Hermann Broch

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Hermann Broch's Letters to His Son, 1925-1928

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The Unknown Quantity

By: Hermann Broch,Willa Muir

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Death of Virgil

By: Hermann Broch

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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time

The European Imagination, 1860-1920

By: Hermann Broch

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The European Imagination, 1860-1920

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The Guiltless

By: Hermann Broch

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John Florio

A Worlde of Wordes

By: Hermann W. Haller

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John Florio

A Worlde of Wordes

By: Hermann W. Haller

A Worlde of Wordes, the first-ever comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, was published in 1598 by John Florio. One of the most prominent linguists and educators in Elizabethan England, Florio was greatly responsible for the spreading of Italian letters and culture throughout educated English society. Especially important was Florio’s dictionary, which – thanks to its exuberant wealth of English definitions – made it initially possible for English readers to access Italy’s rich Renaissance literary and scientific culture. Award-winning author Hermann W. Haller has prepared the first critical edition of A Worlde of Wordes, which features 46,000 Italian entries – among them dialect forms, erotic terminology, colloquial phrases, and proverbs of the Italian language. Haller reveals Florio as a brilliant English translator and creative writer, as well as a grammarian and language teacher. His helpful critical commentary highlights Florio’s love of words and his life-long dedication to promoting Italian language and culture abroad.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442669756

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Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics: Volume 6

By: Hermann Osthoff,Karl Brugmann

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Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics: Volume 6

By: Hermann Osthoff,Karl Brugmann

A product of the Neogrammarian school, this six-volume work (published 1878-1910) remains an important contribution to Indo-European linguistics.

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1108063020

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Corporate Urban Responsibility

Die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen in der Stadtentwicklung

By: Hans-Hermann Albers

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Corporate Urban Responsibility

Die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen in der Stadtentwicklung

By: Hans-Hermann Albers

Die Themen Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) und nachhaltiges Wirtschaften haben sich inzwischen in den meisten Unternehmen etabliert. Angesichts des gesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Strukturwandels, Privatisierung und begrenzter finanzieller Möglichkeiten des Staates werden Unternehmen jedoch auch zunehmend in Deutschland als engagierte Akteure für Stadtentwicklungsmodelle eingebunden. Wie beeinflusst dies Architektur und Städtebau? Hans-Hermann Albers verdeutlicht anhand von Fallbeispielen Chancen und Risiken der unternehmerischen Einflussnahme auf die Gestaltung und Nutzung städtischer Räume.

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Campus Verlag

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3593411989

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Thomas Mann

Life as a Work of Art : a Biography

By: Hermann Kurzke

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Thomas Mann

Life as a Work of Art : a Biography

By: Hermann Kurzke

Kurze's book provides fresh and sometimes startling insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Mann's life and into his writing--the only realm in which he ever felt free. It shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in "Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, " but were woven into the fabric of his existence. 40 photos.

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Princeton University Press

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0691070695

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The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia

Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815-70

By: Hermann Beck

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The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia

Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815-70

By: Hermann Beck

A study of the temperament of Prussian conservatives, and their approaches to social problems and the lower classes

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University of Michigan Press

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0472084283

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9780472084289

The Legacy of German Jewry

By: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt

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The Legacy of German Jewry

By: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt

This volume is a comprehensive rethinking of the German-Jewish experience. Goldschmidt challenges the elegiac view of Gershom Scholem, showing us the German-Jewish legacy in literature, philosophy and critical thought in a new light.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823228266

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Democracy - the God That Failed

The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order

By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Democracy - the God That Failed

The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order

By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical events. A compelling chapter on time preference describes the progress of civilization as lowering time preferences as capital structure is built, and explains how the interaction between people can lower time all around, with interesting parallels to the Ricardian Law of Association. By focusing on this transformation, the author is able to interpret many historical phenomena, such as rising levels of crime, degeneration of standards of conduct and morality, and the growth of the mega-state. In underscoring the deficiencies of both monarchy and democracy, the author demonstrates how these systems are both inferior to a natural order based on private-property. Hoppe deconstructs the classical liberal belief in the possibility of limited government and calls for an alignment of conservatism and libertarianism as natural allies with common goals. He defends the proper role of the production of defense as undertaken by insurance companies on a free market, and describes the emergence of private law among competing insurers. Having established a natural order as superior on utilitarian grounds, the author goes on to assess the prospects for achieving a natural order. Informed by his analysis of the deficiencies of social democracy, and armed with the social theory of legitimation, he forsees secession as the likely future of the US and Europe, resulting in a multitude of region and city-states. This book complements the author's previous work defending the ethics of private property and natural order. "Democracy"--"The God that Failed "will be of interest to scholars and students of history, political economy, and political philosophy.

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Transaction Publishers

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0765808684

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9780765808684

Brenner

By: Hermann Burger

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Brenner

By: Hermann Burger

“Hermann Burger was an artist who went the whole hog every time, didn't conserve himself. He was a man with a big longing for happiness.” --Marcel Reich-Ranicki Appearing in English for the very first time, Brenner is a delightfully unusual novel full of dark humor tracing the childhood memories of the book's eponymous narrator, a scion of an ancient cigar dynasty. Perpetually shrouded in a thick cloud of cigar smoke, Herman Arbogast Brenner, scion of an old and famous cigar dynasty, has decided to kill himself––but not until he has written down his forty-six years of life, in a Proustian attempt to conjure the wounds, joys, and sensations of his childhood in the rolling countryside of the Aargau region of Switzerland. Estranged from his wife and two children, he decides there is no point in squirrelling away his fortune, so he buys himself a Ferrari 328 GTS, and drives around sharing cigars with his few remaining friends. In this roman à clef, writing and smoking become intertwined through the act of remembering, as Brenner, a fallible, wounded, yet lovable antihero, searches for epiphany, attempting to unearth memories just out of reach— the glimmer of a red toy car, the sound of a particular chord played on the piano, the smell of the cigars themselves. Brenner is the final work from Hermann Burger, who died by suicide in 1989. The book comes out just days before what would have been the author’s 80th birthday.

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Archipelago

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195386130X

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9781953861306

Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics: Volume 4

By: Hermann Osthoff,Karl Brugmann

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Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics: Volume 4

By: Hermann Osthoff,Karl Brugmann

A product of the Neogrammarian school, this six-volume work (published 1878-1910) remains an important contribution to Indo-European linguistics.

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1108063004

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DemocracyThe God That Failed

The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order

By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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DemocracyThe God That Failed

The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order

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The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical events. A compelling chapter on time preference describes the progress of civilization as lowering time preferences as capital structure is built, and explains how the interaction between people can lower time all around, with interesting parallels to the Ricardian Law of Association. By focusing on this transformation, the author is able to interpret many historical phenomena, such as rising levels of crime, degeneration of standards of conduct and morality, and the growth of the mega-state. In underscoring the deficiencies of both monarchy and democracy, the author demonstrates how these systems are both inferior to a natural order based on private-property. Hoppe deconstructs the classical liberal belief in the possibility of limited government and calls for an alignment of conservatism and libertarianism as natural allies with common goals. He defends the proper role of the production of defense as undertaken by insurance companies on a free market, and describes the emergence of private law among competing insurers. Having established a natural order as superior on utilitarian grounds, the author goes on to assess the prospects for achieving a natural order. Informed by his analysis of the deficiencies of social democracy, and armed with the social theory of legitimation, he forsees secession as the likely future of the US and Europe, resulting in a multitude of region and city-states. This book complements the author's previous work defending the ethics of private property and natural order. Democracy—The God that Failed will be of interest to scholars and students of history, political economy, and political philosophy.

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