Degeneration and Revolution

Radical Cultural Politics and the Body in Weimar Germany

AvRobert Heynen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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In Degeneration and Revolution: Radical Cultural Politics and the Body in Weimar Germany Robert Heynen explores the impact of conceptions of degeneration, exemplified by eugenics and social hygiene, on the social, cultural, and political history of the left in Germany, 1914–33. Hygienic practices of bodily regulation were integral to the extension of modern capitalist social relations, and profoundly shaped Weimar culture. Heynen’s innovative interdisciplinary approach draws on Marxist and other critical traditions to examine the politics of degeneration and socialist, communist, and anarchist responses. Drawing on key Weimar theorists and addressing artistic and cultural movements ranging from Dada to worker-produced media, this book challenges us to rethink conventional understandings of left culture and politics, and of Weimar culture more generally.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-03-27
Mått:155 x 235 x 44 mm
Vikt:1 175 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Materialism Book Series
Antal sidor:678
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004276260

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Robert Heynen teaches in Communication Studies at York University. He has published numerous articles on Weimar culture, socialist history, and surveillance, including in New Formations and Canadian Journal of Communication.

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsChapter 1: Introduction: Weimar Germany and the Cultures of Capitalist Modernity1.1 Rethinking Weimar History1.2 Weimar Germany: The Crises of Capitalist Modernity1.3 Degeneration, Embodiment, and the Politics of Culture: A Marxist Perspective1.4 The Structure of the BookChapter 2: Degeneration: Gender, War and the Politics of the Volkskörper2.1 Introduction2.2 August 19142.3 Women’s Protests and Left Politics2.4 Masculinity, War, and the Cultural Politics of the Weimar Radical RightChapter 3: Revolution: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Question of Totality3.1 Introduction3.2 Nostalgia and Shock3.3 Art, Politics, and Revolution3.4 Expressionism and After3.5 TotalityChapter 4: Bodies and Minds: Art and the Politics of Degeneration4.1 Introduction4.2 (De)militarised Bodies: Art and Gender after War4.3 The Prostitute4.4 The Prosthetic Man: The Wounded or Disabled Veteran4.5 Outsider Art: Asylums and the Cultural Politics of Madness4.6 Primitivism, the Body, and Colonial NostalgiaChapter 5: Transforming Vision: Film, Photography, and the Politics of Social Hygiene5.1 Introduction: The Birth of Homo Cinematicus5.2 The Photo-Eye: New Modes of Vision5.3 The Primitive Spectator: Race, Gender, Class, and the Weimar Audience5.4 Optical Hygiene: Sanitising Vision5.5 Racial Aesthetics: Photography, Film, and the Weimar BodyChapter 6: Revolution and the Degeneration of the Weimar Republic: Worker Culture and the Rise of Fascism6.1 Introduction6.2 Towards a Worker Culture6.3 ‘We Are the Eyes of Our Class!’: Workers’ Photography and Film6.4 Proletarian Theatre and the Fight for the Streets6.5 Radical Cultures of the Body: The Left and the Struggle over Abortion6.6 In the Shadow of Fascism: Brecht, the Left, and the End of the Weimar RepublicReferencesIndex