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German literature encompasses literary works written in the German language across historical periods.
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Deleuze and Guattari read Kafka as a revolutionary writer whose work demonstrates the political potential of literature itself.
Rudolf Steiner's "Goethe's Spiritual Nature" represents one of his most sustained engagements with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Hermann von Helmholtz's essay "Über Goethe's naturwissenschaftliche Arbeiten" (On Goethe's Scientific Works) stands as one of the most…
Hermann von Helmholtz's "Goethe's Foreshadowings of Coming Scientific Ideas" is a lecture delivered in 1853 that examines Johann…
Pidiendo un Goethe desde dentro is a Spanish-language work by José Ortega y Gasset, first published in 1932.
Marcuse defines the artist novel as a narrative where the artist's development is the central problem, emerging when…
The volume collects the philosophical dialogue between Oswald Spengler and Wolfgang E.
The Revolution Is Not Over is a political essay published by Oswald Spengler in 1924, written in German…
Spengler argues that the Weimar Constitution failed because it was imposed on Germany from outside, and that a…
A 1924 address calling on German students to embrace national renewal through political engagement.
The letters were assembled by Spengler's sister and her daughter, preserving what remained of a correspondence that was…
This collection offers Spengler's interventions on immediate political, cultural, and social questions facing Germany and Europe in the…
These writings constitute Spengler's direct engagement with the immediate political crises of his time, applying his historical-philosophical framework…
Prussianism and Socialism is a political polemic written by Oswald Spengler, emerging from the turmoil of the First…
Der Tod des Empedokles is an unfinished tragedy in verse by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, dramatizing the…
