Series 1: Writings /repositories/5/archival_objects/893288 8 boxes 1844-1969 Scope and Contents

Consists of typed and autograph manuscripts of Kahler's works: Der Deutsche Charakter in der Geschichte Europas , Geschichte des Menschen , The Jews Among the Nations , Man the Measure , The Meaning of History , Orbit of Thomas Mann , Out of the Labyrinth , Die Philosophie von Hermann Broch , The Tower and the Abyss , Viktor an Fidelis . Also includes his essays, many of which were published--"Verinnerung des Erzaehlens," "Untergang und Uebergang," "Stefan George"--and his lectures and speeches.

 Arrangement

This series is arranged into three subseries: Works, Essays, and Lectures.

 Subseries 1A: Works /repositories/5/archival_objects/893294 2 boxes 1910-1969 Scope and Contents

Consists of works such as Deutsche Charakter in der Geschichte Europas, The Jews Among the Nations, and "Out of the Labyrinth," as well as others.

 Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title.

 Deutsche Charakter in der Geschichte Europas /repositories/5/archival_objects/893340 4 folders 1937 1 1-4 Geschichte des Menschen /repositories/5/archival_objects/893341 2 folders dates not examined 1 5-6 The Jews Among the Nations /repositories/5/archival_objects/893342 4 folders 1967 1 7-10 Man the Measure /repositories/5/archival_objects/893343 4 folders 1943 1 11-14 The Meaning of History /repositories/5/archival_objects/893344 6 folders 1964 1 15-20 The Orbit of Thomas Mann /repositories/5/archival_objects/893345 2 folders 1969 1 21-22 Out of the Labyrinth /repositories/5/archival_objects/893346 12 folders 1967 1 23-34 Die Philosophie von Hermann Broch /repositories/5/archival_objects/893347 2 folders 1962 2 1-2 The Tower and the Abyss /repositories/5/archival_objects/893348 5 folders 1957 2 3-7 Viktor an Fidelis /repositories/5/archival_objects/893349 1 folder 1910 2 8 Miscellaneous notes /repositories/5/archival_objects/893350 1 folder dates not examined 2 9 Subseries 1B: Essays /repositories/5/archival_objects/893295 5 boxes 1844-1967 Scope and Contents

Consists of essays such as "The Case for World Government," "Democracy in a Changing World," and "The Hydrogen Bomb," as well as others.

 Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title.

 "Alfred Weber" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893351 1 folder 1868-1958 1958 3 1 "An Attempt at Truth: Origins of the Summit Crisis" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893352 1 folder 1960 3 2 "Bilingualism and the Problems of Translation" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893353 1 folder dates not examined 3 3 On Hermann Broch /repositories/5/archival_objects/893354 1 folder dates not examined 3 4 "Brochfeier" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893355 1 folder 1958 3 5 "The Case for World Government" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893356 2 folders 1946-1947 3 6-7 Committee to Frame a World Constitution, various essays /repositories/5/archival_objects/893357 1 folder dates not examined 3 8 Committee to Frame a World Constitution, address /repositories/5/archival_objects/893358 1 folder dates not examined 3 9 "The Common Enemy" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893359 2 folders dates not examined 3 10-11 "The Crisis of American Democracy" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893360 4 folders 1965 3 12-15 "Democracy in a Changing World" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893361 6 folders dates not examined 3 16-21 "Democracy Today and Tomorrow" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893362 3 folders 1965 3 22-24 "Democracy and World Organization" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893363 1 folder 1966 3 25 "Deutsch-sterreich zu Deutschland" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893364 1 folder 1918 3 26 "Doctor Faustus From Adam to Sartre" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893365 8 folders 1967 3 27-34 "Einführung zu einer Lesung von Übertragungen englischer Gedichte" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893366 1 folder dates not examined 4 1 "Einheit ab Untergang" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893367 1 folder 1939 4 2 Speech written for Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize dinner /repositories/5/archival_objects/893368 1 folder 1945 4 3 "The Elect" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893369 1 folder dates not examined 4 4 "Ends and Means." Common Cause : a Journal of One World /repositories/5/archival_objects/893370 1 folder dates not examined 4 5 "Entwurf einer Theorie der Geschichte" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893371 1 folder dates not examined 4 6 Epitaph in limerick form addressed to Einstein /repositories/5/archival_objects/893372 1 folder dates not examined 4 7 "Die Erwählten" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893373 1 folder dates not examined 4 8 "Foreign Policy Today." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists /repositories/5/archival_objects/893374 2 folders dates not examined 4 9-10 "Form und Entformung" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893375 1 folder dates not examined 4 11 "Formen und Provenzen des Unbewussten" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893376 3 folders 1962 4 12-14 "The Forms of Form" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893377 1 folder 1963 4 15 "Die Frage nach dem Sinn der Geschichte" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893378 1 folder dates not examined 4 16 Essay on Paul Frankl /repositories/5/archival_objects/893379 1 folder dates not examined 4 17 "Gedenkrede auf Thomas Mann" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893380 1 folder 1956 4 18 "The German Problem" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893381 1 folder 1945 4 19 "Gibt es einen Sinn in der Geschichte?" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893382 2 folders dates not examined 4 20-21 "Hermann Broch" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893383 1 folder dates not examined 4 22 "Hermann Broch on Thomas Mann" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893384 1 folder dates not examined 4 23 "Die historische Verantwortung Stefan Georges" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893385 1 folder 1938 4 24 "The History of the Concept of the Unconcious" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893386 2 folders dates not examined 4 25-26 Essay on Gerald Manley Hopkins /repositories/5/archival_objects/893387 1 folder dates not examined 4 27 "Gerald Manley Hopkins" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893388 1 folder 1844-1889 4 28 "The Hydrogen Bomb" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893389 1 folder dates not examined 4 29 "The Invasion of Cuba" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893390 1 folder dates not examined 4 30 "Juden und Deutsche." Europäische Revue /repositories/5/archival_objects/893391 1 folder dates not examined 4 31 Essay on Eugen von Kahler /repositories/5/archival_objects/893392 1 folder dates not examined 4 32 "Kommentar zu Blatt" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893393 1 folder dates not examined 4 33 "Die Krise des Individuums" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893394 1 folder dates not examined 4 34 "Die Kubanische Krise" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893395 1 folder 1962 4 35 "Das Kunstwerk und die Geschichte" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893396 4 folders 1954 4 36-39 "Leben und Kunst" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893397 1 folder 1922 5 1 "Liberalism Today" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893398 1 folder 1959 5 2 Essay on Thomas Mann /repositories/5/archival_objects/893399 2 folders 1935 5 3-4 Memorandum for Richard Falk /repositories/5/archival_objects/893400 1 folder 1962 5 5 "Metaphysik: ein Brief" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893401 1 folder 1905-1906 5 6 "The Military Mentality" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893402 1 folder 1947 5 7 "Motif and Motive: The Origins of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893403 1 folder 1957 5 8 "Nihilistic Technocracy" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893404 1 folder dates not examined 5 9 "An Open Letter to Harold Urey" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893405 1 folder 1950 5 10 "The Origins of the Total State" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893406 1 folder 1941 5 11 "Das Problem der Demokratie." Sonderdruck aus Synopsis /repositories/5/archival_objects/893407 1 folder dates not examined 5 12 "Die Prosa des Expressionismus" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893408 1 folder 1964 5 13 "The Rallying Idea" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893409 3 folders 1965 5 14-16 "The Reality of Utopia" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893410 1 folder 1946 5 17 "Re: Explanation and Interpretation" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893411 2 folders dates not examined 5 18-19 "Religion and Science: Irreconcilable" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893412 1 folder 1940 5 20 "Response and Responsibility" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893413 1 folder dates not examined 5 21 "The Responsibility of the German People" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893414 1 folder 1945 5 22 "The Responsibility of the Mind" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893415 1 folder 1945 5 23 "The Responsibility of the Spirit" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893416 2 folders 1945 5 24-25 "The Right of the People" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893417 1 folder dates not examined 5 26 "Schwankung" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893418 1 folder 1904 5 27 "Science and History" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893419 1 folder dates not examined 5 28 "The Secularization of the Devil: Thomas Mann's Faust" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893420 2 folders dates not examined 5 29-30 "Sinn" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893421 1 folder dates not examined 5 31 "The Spiritual Sources of National Socialism" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893422 1 folder dates not examined 5 32 "The State of our World at a Glance" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893423 2 folders dates not examined 5 33-34 Statement on the 196? Presidential Election /repositories/5/archival_objects/893424 1 folder dates not examined 5 35 Statement about 1968 Presidential Election /repositories/5/archival_objects/893425 2 folders dates not examined 5 36-37 "Technische Bemerkungen zur Üebersetzung" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893426 1 folder dates not examined 5 38 "Theology of Progress:Review of Civilization on Trial by A. Toynbee." The Nation /repositories/5/archival_objects/893427 1 folder 1949 June 19 5 39 "Theory of History" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893428 2 folders dates not examined 5 40-41 "Der Tod Georgs (by Richard Beer-Hofmann): Einleitung" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893429 1 folder dates not examined 5 42 "Totalitarianism" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893430 2 folders dates not examined 5 43-44 "Tote Zeit" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893431 1 folder 1908 6 1 "The Transformation of Modern Fiction" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893432 1 folder 1955 6 2 Translations of Four Hopkins Poems /repositories/5/archival_objects/893433 1 folder dates not examined 6 3 Translations of Joyce's poem "Alone" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893434 1 folder dates not examined 6 4 Translation of Joyce poem for Lili Kahler /repositories/5/archival_objects/893435 1 folder dates not examined 6 5 Translation of Lowell's "Middle Age" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893436 1 folder dates not examined 6 6 Translation of Melville's "Monody" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893437 1 folder dates not examined 6 7 Translation of Eleanor Wolff's "Worte" with note from her /repositories/5/archival_objects/893438 1 folder dates not examined 6 8 Translation From Yeats' works /repositories/5/archival_objects/893439 1 folder dates not examined 6 9 "Die Transzendenz der Kunst." Das Silberboot /repositories/5/archival_objects/893440 1 folder 1948 6 10 "The True, the Good, and the Beautiful" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893441 1 folder dates not examined 6 11 "Über Demokratie" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893442 1 folder dates not examined 6 12 "Unity of Mankind" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893443 1 folder dates not examined 6 13 "Untergang und Übergang der Epischen Kunstform /repositories/5/archival_objects/893444 1 folder 1953 6 14 "The Utopia of Present Reality" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893445 1 folder dates not examined 6 15 "Die Verantwortlichkeit des Deutschen Volkes" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893446 1 folder dates not examined 6 16 "Der Verfall des Wertens." Merkur /repositories/5/archival_objects/893447 1 folder dates not examined 6 17 "Die Verinnerung des Erzählens" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893448 7 folders dates not examined 6 18-24 "Versuch der Erinnerung" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893449 2 folders dates not examined 6 25-26 "Verwandlung des Menschen" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893450 1 folder dates not examined 6 27 "Das Wahre, das Gute, und das Schöne" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893451 1 folder 1961 7 1 "Wankung des Sozialismus und [ ] vs. Republikanismus" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893452 1 folder dates not examined 7 2 "Was Ist ein Gedicht?" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893453 2 folders dates not examined 7 3-4 "Was Soll Werden?" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893454 3 folders dates not examined 7 5-7 "What is Art?" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893455 1 folder 1959 7 8 "What History Is and Is Not" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893456 1 folder dates not examined 7 9 "Why Socialism? Which Socialism?" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893457 3 folders dates not examined 7 10-12 "Will the Democracies Help the Jewish State?" The JewishForum /repositories/5/archival_objects/893458 1 folder dates not examined 7 13 "Die Wirklichkeit der Utopie." Die Neue Rundschau /repositories/5/archival_objects/893459 1 folder dates not examined 7 14 Essay on World Government /repositories/5/archival_objects/893460 1 folder dates not examined 7 15 "Zeit in der Literatur" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893461 1 folder dates not examined 7 16 "Zu einer Universal Theorie der Geschichte" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893462 1 folder dates not examined 7 17 "Die Zukunft des Romans" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893463 1 folder dates not examined 7 18 Untitled /repositories/5/archival_objects/893464 1 folder dates not examined 7 19 Subseries 1C: Lectures /repositories/5/archival_objects/893296 1 box 1910-1912 Scope and Contents

Consists of lectures, including "Disintegration of Form in the Arts," "The Meaning of History," and a Christian Gauss Seminar, Princeton University, as well as others.

 Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

 "Disintegration of Form in the Arts," Three-Part Lecture Series /repositories/5/archival_objects/893465 4 folders dates not examined 8 1-4 Gandhi Memorial, Washington: Talk /repositories/5/archival_objects/893466 1 folder dates not examined 8 5 Christian Gauss Seminar, Princeton University /repositories/5/archival_objects/893467 2 folders dates not examined 8 6-7 Jewish Center, Princeton: Address /repositories/5/archival_objects/893468 1 folder dates not examined 8 8 Lehrervortrag, Princeton /repositories/5/archival_objects/893469 1 folder dates not examined 8 9 Thomas Mann: Lectures /repositories/5/archival_objects/893470 5 folders dates not examined 8 10-14 "The Meaning of History" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893471 4 folders dates not examined 8 15-18 "Representation and Revolution" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893472 1 folder dates not examined 8 19 "Thomas Mann: Artist at the Crossroads of our Age" /repositories/5/archival_objects/893473 2 folders dates not examined 8 20-21 Tod des Vergil : Lecture /repositories/5/archival_objects/893474 1 folder dates not examined 8 22 World Government: Speech /repositories/5/archival_objects/893475 1 folder dates not examined 8 23 Untitled lectures /repositories/5/archival_objects/893476 1 folder dates not examined 8 24 Notebooks: "Memorandum über die Ehe" (1912); "Die reinen Zeichen" and "Ausbruch" (1910-1911) /repositories/5/archival_objects/893477 1 folder 1910-1912 8 23