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In the Shadow of Catastrophe : German title: Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment Weimar and Now ; 14 author: Rabinbach, Anson. publisher: University of California Press isbn10 | asin: 0520207440 print isbn13: 9780520207448 ebook isbn13: 9780585115474 language: English Germany--Intellectual life--20th century, Germany--Politics and government--1918- subject 1933, Arts and society--Germany--History- -20th century, Enlightenment--Germany, Jews--Germany--Intellectual life. publication date: 1997 lcc: DD239.R3 1997eb ddc: 943.085/086/31 Germany--Intellectual life--20th century, Germany--Politics and government--1918- subject: 1933, Arts and society--Germany--History- -20th century, Enlightenment--Germany, Jews--Germany--Intellectual life. Page i In the Shadow of Catastrophe Page ii Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Martin Jay and Anton Kaes, General Editors 1. Heritage of Our Times, by Ernst Bloch 2. The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 18901990, by Steven E. Aschheim 3. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, edited by Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg 4. Batteries of Life: On the History of Things and Their Perception in Modernity, by Christoph Asendorf 5. Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution, by Margaret Cohen 6. Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany, by Thomas J. Saunders 7. Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption, by Richard Wolin 8. The New Typography, by Jan Tschichold, translated by Ruari McLean 9. The Rule of Law under Siege: Selected Essays of Franz L. Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer, edited by William E. Scheuerman 10. The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 19231950, by Martin Jay 11. Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture, edited by Katharina von Ankum 12. Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 19001949, edited by Hans Wysling, translated by Don Reneau 13. Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 19101935, by Karl Toepfer 14. In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment, by Anson Rabinbach Page iii In the Shadow of Catastrophe German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment Anson Rabinbach UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · London Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press London, England Copyright © 1997 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rabinbach, Anson. In the shadow of catastrophe: German intel- lectuals between apocalypse and enlightenment / Anson Rabinbach. p. cm. (Weimar and now; 14) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-20744-0 (alk. paper) 1. GermanyIntellectual life20th cen- tury. 2. GermanyPolitics and government 19181933. 3. Arts and societyGermany History20th century. 4. Enlightenment Germany. 5. JewsGermanyIntellectual life. I. Title. II. Series. DD239.R3 1997 943.085'086'31dc21 96-39459 CIP Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The paper used in this publication is both acid-free and totally chlorine-free (TCF). It meets the minimum requirements of American Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 Page v CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Apocalypse and Its Shadows 1 Part I. World War I 1. Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment: 27 Benjamin, Bloch, and Modern German-Jewish Messianism 2. The Inverted Nationalism of Hugo Ball's 66 Critique of the German Intelligentsia Part II. 19461947 3. Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" as Text and Event 97 4. The German as Pariah: Karl Jaspers's The Question of 129 German Guilt 5. The Cunning of Unreason: Mimesis and the 166 Construction of Anti-Semitism in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment Conclusion 199 Notes 209 Index 255 Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to the friends, colleagues, and students who heard and discussed these chapters at conferences and colloquia in Europe and America for their critical engagement and encouragement. In Frankfurt, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr permitted me to work among the treasures of the Horkheimer Archiv of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitätsbibliothek, which he oversees with passion and archival skill. K. D. Wolff and Florence Springer kept me apprised of the latest German controversies while Cilly Kugelmann provided more than just her considerable translating skills in preparing chapter 4 for the memorable Arnoldshain colloquium "Erinnerung: Zur Gegenwart des Holocaust in DeutschlandWest und DeutschlandOst" in 1992. I also am indebted to the editors of Radical Philosophy for publishing an earlier version of the same chapter. David Roberts of Monash University in Australia was kind enough to organize a superb symposium on Dialectic of Enlightenment with his colleagues at Thesis Eleven. The Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences generously assisted in preparing the manuscript. At the University of California Press, Ed Dimendberg's sage advice as a colleague and editor has been indispensable throughout. Two of these chapters originally appeared in New German Critique, a uniquely collective enterprise that after more than twenty years remains my most important source of intellectual sustenance, scholarly standards, and personal support. I owe far more to those friends who helped launch and maintain the journal than a mere acknowledg-
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