Individuality and Modernity in Berlin

Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall

AvMoritz Föllmer

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true under all five regimes of the period, through economic depression, war, occupation and reconstruction. The quest for individuality could put democracy under pressure, as in the Weimar years, and could be satisfied by a dictatorship, as was the case in the Third Reich. It was only in the course of the 1950s, when liberal democracy was able to offer superior opportunities for consumerism, that individuality finally claimed the mantle. Individuality and Modernity in Berlin proposes a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Berlin that will engage readers with an interest in the German metropolis as well as European urban history more broadly.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-14
Mått:151 x 227 x 18 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Studies in European History
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107521322

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Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. His previous publications include Die Verteidigung der bürgerlichen Nation: Industrielle und hohe Beamte in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1900–1930 (2002).

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'Moritz Föllmer's focus in this book is about much more than the notion of individuality as a modern phenomenon … providing fresh angles into established historiographical debates … drawing on a vast array of sources, from press clippings to insurance claims and modern design plans, he demonstrates expressions of and claims to individuality as strategies in the negotiation of consent and coercion, power and privacy and everyday life … Föllmer's analysis shines particularly bright …' Jennifer V. Evans, European History Quarterly

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I. Weimar Berlin: 1. Risk, isolation and unstable selfhood; 2. Flexibility, authenticity and consumption; 3. Reform, scandal and extremism; Part II. Nazi Berlin: 4. Redefining legitimate individuality; 5. Jewish Berliners' ambiguous quest for agency; 6. Heroism, withdrawal and privatist loyalty; Part III. Post-War and Cold-War Berlin: 7. Defeat, self-help and the dissociation from Nazism; 8. Socialist ambitions and individualist expectations; 9. Anti-totalitarianism, domesticity and ambivalent modernity; Conclusion.