Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought – serie
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Adorno's Gamble
Harnessing German Ideology
Häftad, 2025
383 kr
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Adorno's Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Theodor W. Adorno's thought, usually seen as a mix of critical Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetic modernism, and Jewish tradition. Mikko Immanen argues for another, previously unacknowledged source of Adorno's thinking …
No Spiritual Investment in the World
Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy
Häftad, 2019
503 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, German writers, philosophers, theologians, and historians turned to Gnosticism to make sense of the modern condition. While some saw this ancient Christian heresy as a way to rethink modernity, most German intellectuals questioned Gnosticism's return in a …
Paradigms for a Metaphorology
Inbunden, 2010
611 kr
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What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or …
Total Work of Art in European Modernism
Häftad, 2011
660 kr
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In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the …
Formative Fictions
Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman
Av Tobias Boes
Inbunden, 2012
1898 kr
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The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias …
Topography of Modernity
Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy
Inbunden, 2013
1898 kr
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Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them …
Berlin Coquette
Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933
Inbunden, 2014
1700 kr
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During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill …
Necessary Luxuries
Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815
Av Matt Erlin
Inbunden, 2014
1898 kr
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The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary …
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
Av Sonja Boos
Inbunden, 2014
1700 kr
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Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul …
Lyric Orientations
Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community
Inbunden, 2016
1898 kr
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In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and …
Legal Tender
Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
Häftad, 2010
562 kr
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At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German …
Benjamin's Library
Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque
Häftad, 2011
578 kr
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In Benjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin's day. Taking into account the literary and …
On the Ruins of Babel
Architectural Metaphor in German Thought
Häftad, 2011
517 kr
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The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their …
Novel Translations
The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730
Häftad, 2011
627 kr
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Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggin charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion, …
Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images
Häftad, 2012
532 kr
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The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the …
Formative Fictions
Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman
Av Tobias Boes
Häftad, 2012
399 kr
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The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias …
Topography of Modernity
Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy
Häftad, 2013
317 kr
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Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them …
Inconceivable Effects
Ethics Through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film
Häftad, 2013
562 kr
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In Inconceivable Effects, Martin Blumenthal-Barby reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ways of viewing the modern world—including Hannah Arendt, …
Berlin Coquette
Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933
Häftad, 2014
460 kr
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During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill …
Lyric Orientations
Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community
Häftad, 2016
448 kr
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In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and …
Necessary Luxuries
Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815
Av Matt Erlin
Häftad, 2014
497 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary …
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
Av Sonja Boos
Häftad, 2014
474 kr
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Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul …
Form As Revolt
Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art
Häftad, 2016
528 kr
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The German writer and art critic Carl Einstein (1885–1940) has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the history of modern art, and yet he is often sidelined as an enigma. In Form as Revolt Sebastian Zeidler recovers Einstein's multifaceted career, offering the first comprehensive …
Counterpreservation
Architectural Decay in Berlin Since 1989
Inbunden, 2016
1700 kr
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In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, they serve as platforms for dissenting views about the future and past of …
Counterpreservation
Architectural Decay in Berlin Since 1989
Häftad, 2016
474 kr
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In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, they serve as platforms for dissenting views about the future and past of …
Paradigms for a Metaphorology
Häftad, 2016
285 kr
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What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or …
Mixed Feelings
Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture
Inbunden, 2016
1898 kr
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Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love—often unrequited or impossible love—to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in the German-speaking countries. In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff asks what it means for literature …
Mixed Feelings
Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture
Häftad, 2016
497 kr
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Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love—often unrequited or impossible love—to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in the German-speaking countries. In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff asks what it means for literature …
Repentance for the Holocaust
Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
Inbunden, 2017
1650 kr
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In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a …
Repentance for the Holocaust
Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
Häftad, 2017
432 kr
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In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a …
