Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011

Darwin's idea has been called the best idea anyone ever had. In Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011 Nicholas Saul offers the first representative account of German literary responses to Darwinian evolutionism from Raabe and Jensen via Ernst Junger and Botho Strau to Dietmar Dath. Often identified with National Socialist ideology and hence notably absent from the public sp...