![]() ![]() In 1922, however, amid the unemployment, inflation, assassinations, and violent political street fights of the Weimar Republic, Mann re-established himself as a defender of the fledgling democracy with "On the German Republic" ("Von deutscher Republik"). ![]() Four demoralizing years of trench warfare later, Mann doubled down with Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen), a 500-page tract asserting Germany's rights to defend itself against the aggressions of English and French "civilization". The essay's vehement rejection of democracy shocked his admirers, who knew him as a writer who chronicled-all but luxuriated in-the decadence and decline of his culture, and endeared him to the nationalist right. In 1914, at the age of thirty-nine, Mann published "Thoughts in Wartime" ("Gedanken im Kriege") in Die neue Rundschau, voicing his enthusiasm not just for the German cause in the First World War, but for the war itself. ![]() Īmong his many accomplishments, Thomas Mann can count one of the most famous about-faces in literature. REFLECTIONS OF A NONPOLITICAL MAN THOMAS MANNĥ57pp. ![]()
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