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Tag Archives: German
War and Remembrance
A discussion of the history of World War II, Nazi Germany, and popular memory of the Holocaust.
History Up Close and Personal
Leo Spitzer discusses the Holocaust, cultural memory, and the personal dimensions of the historian’s craft. Fritz Stern reflects on recent German history from personal and professional perspectives.
Ritual and Myth, Then and Now
A discussion of ritual play in ancient Greek religion and its contemporary echoes. A discussion of Old Norse and Germanic myths and their modern meanings.
Reason and Religion
A discussion Of George Marden’s new book, The Secularization of the Academy (Oxford University Press). A discussion of reason, religion, and the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Crosscurrents
In two conversations about creative crosscurrents between Europe and the United States, Rita Dove discusses D_rer’s Beauty,? her sequence of poems about the German artist Albrect D_rer, and Robert ter Horst discusses the American historian Henry Adams and the Bloomsbury Groups in England.
German Witnesses
Lynne Tatlock discusses the rhetoric of fact in 17th-century German literature. Fred Viebahn discusses his novel The Stain (Story Line Press, 1988).
Politics in Transition
Lynn Hunt discusses sexuality, gender, and the French Revolution. Larry Eugene Jones discusses the German Right and the Nazi seizure of power between 1928 and 1934.