This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.
The Thomas Mann literature—by him or about him, and translated into all civilized languages—is immense; no writer has ever written more or received more accolades. His six children called him “the magician,” and no doubt had their reasons. There is a magical “now-you-see-it, now-you-don't” in practically all of his writings, a magic that pertains to his eroticism: a homo-eroticism that explicitly rules out homosexuality by virtue of an internal dictum: “You may observe, but you may not touch.” That proviso, which goes back to his childhood, eventually enabled him to write over and over again about his dominant passion, a passion for handsome young men, for the ephebe “beautiful like man and woman, yet neither man nor woman, but something miraculous in between,” to write about it without causing offense.Even so, the otherwise excellent English biographies of Mann published so far have ignored or belittled this topic, though it is well covered in a number of German publications. Disorder and Early Love book not only tries to fill in such lacunae, but also deals with the manner in which Mann's eroticism related to his brother, Heinrich, to his wife, Katia, to his children, and to a large number of Western writers and philosophers who influenced Mann or about whom he wrote essays; and to the conservative culture of his youth that was assailed by a sexual revolt at the end of the 19th century.
Argues that sociologists have either ignored or grappled with the idea of war and examines the reasons behind this denial of the violent nature of the human race.
. Drawing on a vast array of new and exciting sources, Stolper paints a portrait of his mentor as a decent, ambitious, and complex man whose many insights into economy and society found their way outside of the academy and into the practical world of economic policy. All readers interested in the history of economic thought and twentieth-century political and intellectual history will find this book invaluable.
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