Hermann Broch wrote two of the most significant novels of German modernism, The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, which established his importance to German literature. His writings on democracy, mass delusion and internationalism are more obscure. Embracing Democracy examines the central political, social and psychological tenets of Broch s concept of -total democracy- as an expression of the synthesis of his European intellectual development his Viennese Bildung and his new position as an exile from fascism.
This book chronicles Broch s experiences from...