Confessions of a Closet Catholic

Synopsis

Part One. History And Society -- Preconditions For The Rise Of National Socialism / Karl-dietrich Bracher -- Introduction To The History Of The German War Economy / Dietrich Eichholtz -- The Political Legacy Of The German Resistance / Hans Rothfels -- The Problem Of Militarism In Germany / Gerhard Ritter -- From Anitauthoritarian Movement To Socialist Opposition / Bernd Rabehl -- The Berlin Wall Illness / Dietrfried Müller-hegemann -- Part Two. Philosophy, Science, And Religion -- Between Metaphysics And Social Criticism : Comments On German Philosophy After 1945 / Ivo Frenzel -- Theology : Transcendence And Secularity / Hans W. Frei -- The Future Of Science / Carl Friedrich Freiherr Von Wetzsäcker -- Learning To See And Learning To Think / Robert Havemann -- Marx Today -- An Address / Max Horkheimer -- From Knowledge And Human Interest / Jürgen Habermas -- Aesthetics And Hermeneutics / Hans-georg Gadamer -- Part Three. Literature -- Fragments / Gottfried Benn -- Death Fugue / Paul Celan -- The Sea Battle / Günther Grass -- Breathing / Wilhelm Lehmann -- Under The Roots Of The Thistle / Peter Huchel -- Laws / Günter Kunert -- Anonymous Citizen From Gdr -- Germany, 1952 / Bertholt Brecht -- Precision Practice / Yaak Karsunke -- Almost Autobiographical Life Story Of A West German Leftist / Franz Josef Degenhardt -- Stocktaking Ballad In The Thirtieth Year / Wolf Biermann -- Middle Class Blues / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- Reasons / Erich Fried -- Words Are Shadows / Eugen Gomringer -- Calypso / Ernst Jandl -- Es / Franz Mon -- Am I German? / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- You Are Now Entering Germany / Heinrich Böll -- Stories From A Primer / Wolfgang Borchert -- The Two Sons / Bertolt Brecht -- The First Two Sentences For A Book About Germany / Johannes Bobrowski -- An Experiment In Love / Alexander Kluge -- Calculation About What Everyone Knew / Helmut Heissenbüttel -- Three Encounters / Anna Seghers -- My Home Is Austria / Hans Carl Artmann -- The Funeral / Wolfdietrich Schnurre -- Where I Live / Ilse Aichinger -- Eight Very Short Stories / Heimito Von Doderer -- Aphorisms / Elias Canetti -- The Jew From Andorra / Max Frisch -- In The Poor House / Thomas Bernhard -- World's End / Christoph Meckel -- The Tale Of The Giant Snake Louella / Peter Hacks -- Doctor Of Entertainment / Siegfried Lenz -- After Siegfried's Death / Martin Walser -- The Daughter / Peter Bichsel -- Entrance / Reinhard Lettau -- What To Do With Ulbricht? / Werner W. Franke -- On A Posture Of Protest / Uwe Johnson -- Calling For Help / Peter Handke -- On The Unity Of German Literature / Hans Mayer -- Austria ; Switzerland / Peter Demetz -- Physiognomy Of A Group / Joachim Kaiser -- From On The Problem Of Realism / Ernst Fischer -- New Difficulties In Writing The Truth / Reinhard Baumgart -- The Commonplace And The Only Correct Word / Dieter Wellershoff -- Part Four. Music -- German Musical Life : Patterns Of Conservatism And Experiment / Hans H. Stuckenschmidt -- Electronic And Instrumental Music [1958] / Karlheinz Stockhausen -- New Music, Interpretation, Audience / Theodor W. Adorno -- Visible Music / Dieter Schnebel -- Part Five. Architecture, Fine Arts, And Film -- New German Architecture / Hubert Hoffmann -- The Situation In German Painting Since 1945 / Albert Schulze-vellinghausen -- German Sculpture In The Twentieth Century / Eduard Trier -- Young German Film / Staff Of Der Spiegel. Edited By Charles E. Mcclelland And Steven P. Scher. Bibliography: P. [439]-444.