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The Coming Victory of Democracy
{ 15.34 x 23.59 cms} Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2017 with the help of original edition published long back [1938]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. - English, Pages 108. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.} Complete The Coming Victory of Democracy 1938 Thomas Mann
70 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1938
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Thomas Mann
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Serbian: Tomas Man
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
See also:
Serbian: Tomas Man
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
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February 27, 2022
Sicherlich ein wichtiges Buch zu einem sehr aktuellen Thema: Das Schicksal der Demokratie.
Die Publikation besteht aus drei Essays, von denen einer besonders heraussticht, weil er sich gezielt mit der Demokratie als Herrschaftsform auseinandersetzt. Allerdings erscheint der Text zuweilen auf einem intellektuell und philosophisch hohen Niveau angesiedelt, in einem Maße welches die profunde Argumentation nicht auf Anhieb dem Leser erschliessbar macht. Abgesehen von dieser Einschränkung ist die Sammlung von Texten als sehr ergiebig anzusehen und für das Verständnis der (aktuellen) Phänomene in unseren westlichen Gesellschaften und ihren politischen Systemen eine wichtige Grundlage. Thomas Mann hat feinfühlig autokratische, extrem-rechte, faschistische Regierungsformen analysiert und durchleuchtet, sie dann demokratischen Systemen gegenübergestellt.
Nach der Lektüre ist es dem Leser einsichtig welche Merkmale in den jeweiligen Herrschaftssystemen vorrangig agieren. Aus dieser Perspektive ist diese Sammlung von Texten eine Mehrwert schöpfende Quelle an Informationen und Leitsystem zum Verständnis von politischen Machtsystemen, auch unter Berücksichtigung der Tatsache dass Spin, Manipulationen, Verdrehungen, Lügen und Propaganda durchschaut werden müssen.
Die Publikation besteht aus drei Essays, von denen einer besonders heraussticht, weil er sich gezielt mit der Demokratie als Herrschaftsform auseinandersetzt. Allerdings erscheint der Text zuweilen auf einem intellektuell und philosophisch hohen Niveau angesiedelt, in einem Maße welches die profunde Argumentation nicht auf Anhieb dem Leser erschliessbar macht. Abgesehen von dieser Einschränkung ist die Sammlung von Texten als sehr ergiebig anzusehen und für das Verständnis der (aktuellen) Phänomene in unseren westlichen Gesellschaften und ihren politischen Systemen eine wichtige Grundlage. Thomas Mann hat feinfühlig autokratische, extrem-rechte, faschistische Regierungsformen analysiert und durchleuchtet, sie dann demokratischen Systemen gegenübergestellt.
Nach der Lektüre ist es dem Leser einsichtig welche Merkmale in den jeweiligen Herrschaftssystemen vorrangig agieren. Aus dieser Perspektive ist diese Sammlung von Texten eine Mehrwert schöpfende Quelle an Informationen und Leitsystem zum Verständnis von politischen Machtsystemen, auch unter Berücksichtigung der Tatsache dass Spin, Manipulationen, Verdrehungen, Lügen und Propaganda durchschaut werden müssen.
January 25, 2018
David Brooks wrote about this lecture in his December 14, 2017 NY Times column. In 1938 Mann was in America and gave a version of this lecture throughout the country. Mann speaks to the vision of democracy to create freedom, justice, and to bear the truth that all people are created equal. He also writes about the enemies of democracy. Writing in 1938, he fled his native Germany with the rise of fascism and Hitler. Fascism and its leaderships contempt for other human beings is a threat to democracy's vision of people working for a common good.
Mann is eloquent in his praise of democracy. He is decisive in his criticism of democracy's enemies.
I particularly enjoyed this quote found on page 25. "Democracy... has only the best of intentions toward it. Democracy wishes to elevate mankind, to teach it to think, to set it free. It seeks to remove from culture the stamp of privilege and disseminate it among the people - in a word, it aims at education. Education is an optimistic and humane concept; and respect for humanity is inseparable from it."
Mann is a voice from the past reminding us that we must protect our democracy from its enemies.
Mann is eloquent in his praise of democracy. He is decisive in his criticism of democracy's enemies.
I particularly enjoyed this quote found on page 25. "Democracy... has only the best of intentions toward it. Democracy wishes to elevate mankind, to teach it to think, to set it free. It seeks to remove from culture the stamp of privilege and disseminate it among the people - in a word, it aims at education. Education is an optimistic and humane concept; and respect for humanity is inseparable from it."
Mann is a voice from the past reminding us that we must protect our democracy from its enemies.
December 13, 2016
Mann's assessment of the state of Germany in the Second World War - parallels? "There exists a caricature of this anti intellectualism which has nothing whatever to do with democracy - the contempt of pure reason - the denial and violation of truth - the release of stupidity and realism from the discipline of reason and intelligence - the emancipation of blackguardism" - Brexit? Trump?
November 8, 2015
The Great German writer Thomas Mann escaped Nazi Germany and toured the US with this lecture, in which he provided a lucid analysis of the character and dangers of fascism, defended a vigorous democratic response, and argued that liberal democracy should embrace social democracy to survive the challenges of communism and fascism. While we are not living in the 1930s today, there is much to learn from Mann's reflections for the struggle of liberal democracy with (right-wing) populism in contemporary Europe.
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