Introduction -- Erich Auerbach: Life, Times, and Works -- Dante and the “Discovery of European Representation of Man” -- The Crisis of German Philology: Aryan Philology and the Elimination of the Old Testament -- Two Responses to the German Crisis of Philology: Ernst Robert Curtius and Erich Auerbach -- Exile and Interpretation: The Struggle against Aryan Philology and Nazi Barbarism -- Mim…