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This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in Germany was infused with a thoroughly messianic strain. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, that strain is traced through the work of four important Expressionist playwrights: Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller and Franz Werfel. Moreover, these dramatists are brought into new and sustained dialogues with the theorists and philosophers of messianism who were their contemporaries: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, Gershom Scholem. In arguing, for example, that concepts like Bloch’s utopian self-encounter ( Selbstbegegnung ) and Benjamin’s messianic now-time ( Jetztzeit ) reappear as the framework for Expressionism’s staging of collective redemption in a new age, Anderson forges a previously underappreciated link in the study of Central European thought in the early twentieth century.

Expressionism in literature. --- German drama --- Messianism in literature. --- National socialism and literature --- History and criticism. --- Barlach, Ernst, --- Kaiser, Georg, --- Toller, Ernst, --- Werfel, Franz, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- German drama. --- National socialism and literature. --- Literature and national socialism --- Literature --- German literature --- Werfel, Franz --- Toller, E. --- טאלאר, ערנסט, --- טאלער, ערנסט --- טאלער, ערנסט, --- טולר, ארנסט, --- Torurā, Erunsuto, --- トルラー, エルンスト, --- Barlach, Ernst --- Barlah, Ernst --- Baruraha, Erunsuto --- Werfel, Franz V., --- Verfēl, Frantsʻ, --- Werfel, Franciszek, --- Barlah, Ernst, --- Baruraha, Erunsuto, --- 1900-1999 --- Germany. --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- German Uls --- Germania --- Germanii͡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācij --- Veĭmarskai͡a Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- Germany (East) --- Germany (West) --- Europe --- History and criticism