Herald WeinrichHerald Weinrich (1927-2022) was most recently Prof. of German as a Foreign Language at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, and, following his retirement in 1992, for six years held the Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Collègede France. Among his many books on literature, linguistics, French and German grammar, language pedagogy, and the sociology of cultures, three have previously been translated into English: The Linguistics of Lying and Other Essays (Washington, 2012), Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting (Cornell, 2004), and On Borrowed Time: The Art and Economy of Living with Deadlines (Chicago, 2008). Read More Read Less