{"product_id":"secret-germany-myth-in-twentiethcentury-german-culture-by-furio-jesi-9781803091945","title":"Secret Germany – Myth in Twentieth–Century German Culture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn analysis of how a political myth is taken and treated as a metaphor that reflects how a country like Germany built its own destiny.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, \u003cem\u003eSecret Germany\u003c\/em\u003e was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into everyday life, the secularisation of myth and the mythologisation of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Furio Jesi takes up the term in order to trace the contours of that political, artistic, and aesthetic thread as it runs through German literary and artistic culture in the period—which, in the 1930s, became absorbed by Nazism as part of its prophecy of a triumphant future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on thinkers like Carl Jung and writers such as Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke, Jesi reveals a literary genre that was transformed, tragically, into a potent political myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432488583404,"sku":"9781803091945","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803091945.jpg?v=1774555385","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/secret-germany-myth-in-twentiethcentury-german-culture-by-furio-jesi-9781803091945","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}