Tales of the 1940s: A Conversation between Werner Sollors and Françoise Meltzer

WB202: The Critical Inquiry Podcast

Dec 19, 201938:03News & Politics

Coeditor Françoise Meltzer and Werner Sollors discuss Sollors’s The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s (2014). Read Sollors’s “‘Better to Die by Them than for Them'”: Carl Schmitt Rea...

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