The Aesthetics of Horror: The Life and Thought of Richard Von Kralik

Neuausgabe 2003
ISBN: 978-0-391-04201-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

Austrian-born Richard von Kralik (1852–1934), the so-called poet laureate of Christian Socialism, espoused such hauntingly familiar themes as the “Christian-Germanic ideal of beauty” and the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.” Kralik wielded the tool of propaganda for the Christian Socialists and realized the powerful draw of nationalism when couched in art, poetry, music, and literature. Although Kralik seems to have had no direct influence upon Adolf Hitler, his quest for “pure” German culture and his use of propaganda to achieve those ends share a marked resemblance to the tactics of the Third Reich. Professor Richard Geehr pays meticulous attention to historical detail, avails himself of all available sources, and assesses judiciously Richard von Kralik’s life and influence in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Austria.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geehr, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Origins and Beginnings
2. Kralik vs. the “Modernists”
3. “Austria Will Last Forever”: Kralik as Protagonist in a Losing Cause
4. The Harvest Years: The Cultural Supremacist
5. “Anti-Semitism from a Very High Standpoint”
6. The Kralik Legacy

Appendix

Bibliography
Index

Illustrations

Über Autor(innen)

Richard S. Geehr, Ph.D. (1973) in History, University of Massachusetts, is Professor of History at Bentley College, Massachusetts. He has published extensively on recent Austrian history, including Karl Lueger, Mayor of Fin de Siècle Vienna (Wayne State University Press, 1990).