Ludwig Börne: A Memorial

In 1840, Heinrich Heine, the major German poet of Jewish origin of the age, published a book on Ludwig Bvrne, the major German political writer of Jewish origin of the period, who had died three years before. Regarded by Heine and others as his best-written book, it was also his most disastrously conceived. Intended to recover the high ground of revolutionary principle and philosophy against the attacks mounted on him by Bvrne and his supporters, the book was instead met by a storm of outrage from which it seemed Heines reputation might never recover. In the course of time, the evaluation was reversed; Heine was increasingly celebrated as a true herald of revolution. His vocabulary of Hellenism and Nazarenism, employed for the first time in Bvrne, was transmitted into English usage by Matthew Arnold. But Bvrne itself is Heines only major work that has never been fully translated into English. The commentary to the edition clarifies the conflict between the two most prominent German-Jewish public intellectuals of their time, corrects the misapprehensions constantly in circulation about their relationship and the book, and reveals the many peculiarities of the text. Jeffrey L. Sammons is Leavenworth Professor of German Emeritus at Yale University and the author of four books on Heine.

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Jeffrey L. Sammons is Professor Emeritus, Yale University

Product details

• Authors: Heinrich Heine, Jeffrey L. Sammons
• Assisted by: Jeffrey L. Sammons (Translation)
• Publisher: Camden House Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• No. of pages: 137
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 376 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature,
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies