2014: How to Survive the Next World Crisis

by Nicholas Boyle

Top Cambridge public intellectual argues for economic, political reform if the dire events at the opening of the 20th century are not to be repeated.

180 pages, Hardcover

First published May 21, 2010

About the author

Nicholas Boyle studied French and German at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he has been a fellow since 1968. After research with J. P. Stern on the aphorist G. C. Lichtenberg, he became a lecturer in the university's Department of German, Reader in German Literary and Intellectual History, and Schröder Professor of German in 2006, retiring in 2013. In addition to his work on Goethe and German literature and philosophy his books cover topics in theology and cultural and political criticism. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the council in Frankfurt which manages Goethe's birthplace.