By Mark H. Gelber
This quantity is created from 14 contributions, that are revised and increased types of lectures held at a world convention on Stefan Zweig that happened in Israel in 2004. The essays concentrate on Zweig's biographical writings (for instance Erasmus and Fouché), in addition to on numerous facets of his literary works which were missed because the revival of educational reports of his writings and profession began a few 25 years in the past. those comprise: Zweig's notion of the daemonic, Zweig and Christianity, the discourse of affection in his writings, Zweig as an Austrian eulogist, his realizing of theater, and so on. individuals from Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Slovenia, and Israel carry refreshingly varied views and new issues to this scholarly venture.
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263. html): Ausfluß, Ausströmung. In der weiteren Bedeutung: Hervorgehen des Niederen, Unvollkommenen aus einem Höheren, Vollkommenen. In der Philosophiegeschichte treten diese Ansichten in Form von Lehren meistens in Verbindung mit religiös-mystischen Vorstellungen auf, die oft als ketzerisch beurteilt werden. Diese Strömungen findet man im Neoplatonismus, in der Gnosis (Hervorgehen der Welt aus der Gottheit), bei Cusanus (Entfaltung des göttlichen Seins in der Welt), in der Mystik z. B. bei Meister Eckhart, bei Jacob Böhme, bei Leibniz (in den Monaden als »Fulgurationen«, d.
Zweig, Der Kampf mit dem Dämon (Anm. 3), 10. 26 Karl Müller unsichtbaren Theils jeder Thatsache, und diesen muss daher der Geschichtsschreiber hinzufügen. Von dieser Seite betrachtet, ist er selbstthätig, und sogar schöpferisch, zwar nicht indem er hervorbringt, was nicht vorhanden ist, aber indem er aus eigener Kraft bildet, was er, wie es wirklich ist, nicht mit blosser Empfänglichkeit wahrnehmen konnte. Auf verschiedene Weise, aber ebensowohl, als der Dichter, muss er das zerstreut Gesammelte in sich zu einem Ganzen verarbeiten.
F. W. Behl in der Zeitschrift Die Literatur 32 (1929/30), H. 6, März, 369–370, von Otto Flake in Die Neue Rundschau (1929), 829–830 sowie in der Zeitschrift Das österreichische Buch (1. Mai 1936). Nach Abschluß seiner Arbeiten am Joseph-Fouché-Roman heißt es in einem Brief an Joseph Roth salopp und befreit: »der Fouché und ein immerhin wichtiges Theaterstück [Das Lamm des Armen] sind abgestoßen« (Stefan Zweig an Joseph Roth, Badgastein, 5. September 1929. In: Stefan Zweig: Briefe 1920–1931. Hg.