Brownshirt Princess
A Study of the “Nazy Conscience”
Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such different personalities to collaborate in the production of a slim volume of poetry — entitled Gott in Mir...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 11 janvier 2013
ISBN numérique : 978-1-906924-08-9
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2009
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-906924-07-2
Nombre de pages : 202
Part I. Seeking a New Religion: Gott in Mir
Part II. Serving New Gods
Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such different personalities to collaborate in the production of a slim volume of poetry — entitled Gott in Mir — about the indwelling of the divine within the human?
Lionel Gossman is M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages emeritus at Princeton University. Most of his work has been on 17th and 18th century French literature, 19th century European cultural history, and the theory and practice of historiography. His publications include Men and Masks: A Study of Molière; Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment; French Society and Culture: Background for 18th Century Literature; The Empire Unpossess’d: An Essay on Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall”; Between History and Literature; Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas; The Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck’s “Italia und Germania”; and several edited volumes: The Charles Sanders Peirce Symposium on Semiotics and the Arts; Building a Profession: Autobiographical Perspectives on the Beginnings of Comparative Literature in the United States (with Mihai Spariosu); Geneva-Zurich-Basel: History, Culture, and National Identity, and Begegnungen mit Jacob Burckhardt (with Andreas Cesana). He is currently working on a study of the Jugendstil artist Heinrich Vogeler.
Le texte seul est utilisable sous licence Creative Commons - Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Les autres éléments (illustrations, fichiers annexes importés) sont « Tous droits réservés », sauf mention contraire.
The Passion of Max von Oppenheim
Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler
Lionel Gossman
2013
The Passion of Max von Oppenheim
Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler
Lionel Gossman
2013
Translator’s Introductory Note
Lionel Gossman
1. Foreword
Lionel Gossman
Prefatory Note and Acknowledgments
Lionel Gossman
3. Notes on Persons and Events Mentioned in the Memoir
Lionel Gossman
Editor’s Note
Lionel Gossman
5. Our Daughters the Nazi Girls. A Synopsis in English
Lionel Gossman
6. Remembering Hermynia Zur Mühlen: A Tribute
Lionel Gossman
