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Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927

Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927 (Central European Studies) by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, edited by David S. Luft
English | April 15, 2011 | ISBN: 1557535906 | EPUB | 201 pages | 0.5 MB

The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation called Hofmannsthal a "spiritual-moral authority" of a kind German culture had only rarely produced.

This volume provides translations of essays that deal with the Austrian idea and with the distinctive position of German-speaking Austrians between German nationalism and peoples to the East, whether in the Habsburg Monarchy or beyond it, as well as essays that locate Hofmannsthal's thinking about Austria in relation to the broader situation of German and European culture.