In the Age of Prose: Literary and Philosophical Essays

by Erich Heller

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The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521274958

ISBN13:9780521274951

Release Date:January 1984

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:284 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction World Literature

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