Beyond Catastrophe examines the post-World War II leadership efforts of four major German intellectuals: Karl Jaspers, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Meinecke, and Bertolt Brecht. Clark focuses on the symbolic, practical, and theoretical contributions of these men to post-war cultural reconstruction, and pays special attention to their key works of the period The German Catastrophe, Doctor Faustus, The Question of German Guilt, and Turandot in which they addressed the key issues of the period including responsibility and guilt for the National Socialist regime, German distinctiveness, the possibility...