Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Table of contents

• Preface
• On Humanity in Dark Times: Thoughts about Lessing
• Rosa Luxemburg 1871-1919
• Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli: A Christian on St. Peter's Chair from 1958 to 1963
• Karl Jaspers: A Laudation
• Karl jaspers: Citizen of the World
• Isak Dinesen 1885-1963
• Herman Broch 1886-1951
• Walter Benjamin 1892-1940
• Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
• Waldemar Gurian 1903-1954
• Randall Jarrell 1914-1965 Index About the Author Footnotes