Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi ….

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet..

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths..

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentiment….