Avihu Zakai 
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology [PDF ebook] 
The Humanist Tradition in Peril

Introduction.- Erich Auerbach: Life, Times, and Works.- Dante and the “Discovery of European Representation of Man”.- The Crisis of German Philology: Aryan Philology and the Elimination of the Old Testament.- Two Responses to the German Crisis of Philology: Ernst Robert Curtius and Erich Auerbach.- Exile and Interpretation: The Struggle against Aryan Philology and Nazi Barbarism.- Mimesis – An Apologia for Western Judaeo-Christian Humanist Tradition in an Age of Peril, Tyranny, and Barbarism.- Epilogue: Exile, Interpretation, and Alienation.- Appendix 1: Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of Mimesis.- Appendix 2: Exile and Criticism: Edward Said’s Interpretation of Erich Auerbach.- Bibliography.- Author Index.- Subject Index.

Avihu Zakai is Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of twelve books, among them Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy of History: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003, in addition to numerous articles and presentations for scholarly and general audiences.