Thinking Through German Literature with Andrew Jaszi by Kenne... - 9781640142183

Thinking Through German Literature with Andrew JasziA Foundational Approach Applied to Goethe and Kafka\nAuthor(s): Kenneth M. Ralston\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640142183, 978-1640142183\nSynopsis\nBrings to light an important and unconventional teacher of literature whose way of thinking and method are relevant in German Studies and beyond, particularly in view of the present crisis of the humanities.\n\nAt a time when enrollment in the humanities is said to be in \""free fall\"" (Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 2/27/2023), the figure of Andrew Jaszi offers an alternative vision of what a literary education might look like. Jaszi was a Hungarian-born philosopher and literary scholar in the German Department at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1948 to 1985. His accessible, jargon-free approach, a method he developed through analogy with Goethe's unique way of doing science, attracted student.