Displacement: Zweig, Roth and Benjamin

• Utgivningsdatum: 2025-03-11
• Mått: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
• Vikt: 233 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 142
• Förlag: Arrow Gate Publishing Ltd
• ISBN: 9781913142445

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Having studied law at Magdalen College Oxford, RichardHarper practised as a barrister and then sat as a family lawjudge. During his judicial career he has written on medicaltreatment and the law relating to the protection of childrenand vulnerable adults. He now writes and lectures onthe overall law relating to the protection of children, andDISPLACEMENT is his first work of nonfiction outside of thelaw. The connecting theme of Harper’s writing is examininginjustice and how it may be ameliorated. He lives with hisfamily in West London.

"Three dazzling but doomed literary talents. Three interlocking biographies drawn from the darkest chapter of Jewish experience in 20th century Europe. Richard Harper's concise and commanding account of the shared destinies of Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin wraps the harrowing realities of exile around philosophical questions of art, nationalism and Jewish identity. As we face a growing refugee crisis today, the message of 'Displacement' could not be more relevant."Jeremy Myerson, Professor Emeritus, Royal College of Art “Displacement: Zweig, Roth and Benjamin is a timely study of three powerful writers whose lives were suddenly upended by the Nazis’ coming to power. Like millions of others, they were forced from their homes and places of safety. As contributors to a radical literary Mitteleuropa in the 1920s and 1930s, they found themselves displaced from the cultural worlds that they inhabited and shaped. In this neat and thoughtful survey of their overlapping lives and times, Richard Harper reminds us why we should read and re-read these writers again today. As he shows, they are a ‘warning sign’ of how the seemingly secure foundations of civilised society can collapse when persecution and hatred become a new kind of orthodoxy.”   Dr Mark Donnelly, Associate Professor, History, St Mary’s University, Twickenham

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