Synopses & Reviews
Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.
Table of Contents
On humanity in darktimes : thoughts about Lessing --Rosa Luxemburg, 1871-1919 -- Angela Giuseppe Roncalli : a Christian on St. Peter's chair from 1958 to 1963 --Karl Jaspers, a laudatic -- Karl Jaspers : citizen of the world? -- Isak Dinesen, 1885-1963 -- Herman Broch, 1886-1951 -- Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940 -- Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956 -- Waldemar Gurian, 1903-1954 --Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965.