About this title: The focus of the first volume of Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist was on the cataclysmic final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This book takes up the story in November 1918, when the satirist responded to the creation of the new republics with a defiant hope, invoking international law against the dual threat of reactionary politics and irresponsible media. While contemporaries like Walter Benjamin regarded Kraus as a heroically isolated figure, this book places him within a dynamic field of cultural production, highlighting the court cases he pursued with his lawyer Oskar Samek and the ...
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A. : Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780300107517ISBN:030010751X
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Frontis. Illustrated. First Edition. A Fine+ hardbound copy in like dust jacket, not price-clipped, no remainder mark. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Yale University Press, London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780300107517ISBN:030010751X
Description: Collectible; Like New in As New jacket. NEW SCARCE 1ST IMPRESSION/1ST 2005 YALE HARDBACK EDITION WITH STYLISH UNCLIPPED JACKET & GLOSSY ARCHIVE PHOTOS. SUBTITLE 'THE POST-WAR CRISIS AND THE RISE OF THE SWASTIKA'. VOLUME 2 OF TIMMS' HIGHLY REGARDED, ALL-CONSUMING BIOGRAPHY OF THE WEIMAR FIREBRAND KARL KRAUS, EDITOR OF 'DIE FACKEL'. A CLASSIC FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE LITERATURE OR SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF THE PRE-NAZI PERIOD, AND ITS PREMIER SATIRIST KRAUS. A COLOSSAL ACHIEVEMENT-ALSO HAVE THE ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780300107517ISBN:030010751X
Description: Fine. NEW SCARCE 1ST IMPRESSION/1ST 2005 YALE HARDBACK EDITION WITH STYLISH UNCLIPPED JACKET & GLOSSY ARCHIVE PHOTOS. SUBTITLE 'THE POST-WAR CRISIS AND THE RISE OF THE SWASTIKA'. VOLUME 2 OF TIMMS' HIGHLY REGARDED, ALL-CONSUMING BIOGRAPHY OF THE WEIMAR FIREBRAND KARL KRAUS, EDITOR OF 'DIE FACKEL'. A CLASSIC FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE LITERATURE OR SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF THE PRE-NAZI PERIOD, AND ITS PREMIER SATIRIST KRAUS. A COLOSSAL ACHIEVEMENT-ALSO HAVE THE VERY SCARCE VOLUME 1 OF THIS TWO. read more
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