The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which th
The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which th
The editors' introductory essay begins with a quote by Philip Roth from I Married a Communist in which he places betrayal squarely at the heart of personal, family, and world history. Twelve contribut