Abstract Taking a cue from T. J. Reed’s characterization of Thomas Mann as ‘a late adoptive child of the Enlightenment’, this essay examines an under-appreciated continuum in German history as it is manifested in the political affinities between Mann and Willy Brandt. These may be traced back to the self-correction in Mann’s political outlook as he shifted his intellectual allegiance from Romanticism to the Enlightenment. This led to an increasingly desperate defense of the Weimar Republic and an increasingly urgent appeal for support of the Social Democratic Party.

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托马斯·曼（Thomas Mann）：启蒙运动与社会民主

摘要本文从泰德·里德（TJ Reed）对托马斯·曼（Thomas Mann）的描述作为“启蒙运动的后期收养之子”的线索出发，考察了德国历史上一个未被充分认识的连续体，这一点在曼恩和威利·勃朗特之间的政治关系中得到了体现。这些都可以追溯到曼恩在将自己的思想上的忠诚从浪漫主义转向启蒙运动时的政治矫正。这导致对魏玛共和国的防御日益加剧，对社会民主党的支持也日益迫切。