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Nietzsche Legacy in Germany
1890 - 1990
Häftad, 1994
298 kr
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Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German …
Weimar Republic Sourcebook
Av Anton Kaes, Martin Jay m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
474 kr
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A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. "The Weimar Republic …
Dialectical Imagination
A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950
Av Martin Jay
Häftad, 1996
280 kr
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Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal--the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural …
Cinema and Experience
Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno
Av Miriam Hansen, Edward Dimendberg
Häftad, 2011
470 kr
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Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and …
Cool Conduct
The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany
Inbunden, 2002
735 kr
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"Cool Conduct" is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a …
Hollywood in Berlin
American Cinema and Weimar Germany
Inbunden, 1994
794 kr
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The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion …
Walter Benjamin
An Aesthetic of Redemption
Häftad, 1994
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388 kr
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Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his …
Profane Illumination
Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution
Häftad, 1995
322 kr
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Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and …
Rule of Law Under Siege
Selected Essays of Franz L. Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer
Inbunden, 1996
502 kr
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In the pathbreaking essays collected here, Neumann and Kirchheimer demonstrate that the death of democracy and the rise of fascism during the first half of the twentieth century suggest crucial lessons for contemporary political and legal scholars. The volume includes writings on constitutionalism, …
Women in the Metropolis
Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture
Häftad, 1997
412 kr
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Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, "Women in the Metropolis" provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the …
Empire of Ecstasy
Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910–1935
Av Karl Toepfer
Inbunden, 1997
615 kr
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"Empire of Ecstasy" offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer …
Third Reich Sourcebook
Av Anson Rabinbach, Sander L. Gilman
Inbunden, 2013
1851 kr
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No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror - World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. With "The Third Reich Sourcebook", editors Anson Rabinbach and Sander …
Beyond the Conceivable
Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Av Dan Diner
Inbunden, 2000
794 kr
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The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One …
Dubious Past
Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism
Inbunden, 1999
886 kr
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"A Dubious Past" examines from a new perspective the legacy of Ernst Junger (1895-1998), one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century German intellectual life. From the time he burst onto the literary scene with "The Storms of Steel" in the early 1920s until he reached Olympian age in a …
From Monuments to Traces
Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990
Av Rudy Koshar
Inbunden, 2000
562 kr
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Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys …
Promise of Cinema
German Film Theory, 1907–1933
Av Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1370 kr
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Rich in implications for our present era of media change, the Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once …
Promise of Cinema
German Film Theory, 1907–1933
Av Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
779 kr
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Rich in implications for our present era of media change, the Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once …
Munich and Memory
Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Inbunden, 2000
867 kr
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Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich. Rosenfeld shows, with the aid of a wealth of photographs, how the city's urban form developed after 1945 in direct …
Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany
Av Bernd Widdig
Inbunden, 2001
562 kr
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For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its …
Weimar Surfaces
Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany
Av Janet Ward
Häftad, 2001
306 kr
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Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual …
Walter Benjamin's Other History
Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels
Häftad, 2000
322 kr
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Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. In this critically acclaimed study, distinguished Benjamin scholar Beatrice Hanssen …
In the Shadow of Catastrophe
German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment
Häftad, 2001
428 kr
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These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time. Analyzing the work of …
Dark Mirror
German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood
Häftad, 2002
316 kr
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Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers …
Edgar G. Ulmer
A Filmmaker at the Margins
Inbunden, 2014
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279 kr
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Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of his fellow Austrian and German emigre directors--Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred …
Prague Territories
National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siècle
Häftad, 2002
525 kr
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Scott Spector's adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the 'territories' carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries …
Berlin Electropolis
Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity
Inbunden, 2006
1027 kr
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Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three key groups--railway personnel, soldiers, and telephone operators--Andreas Killen traces …
Rosenzweig and Heidegger
Between Judaism and German Philosophy
Av Peter Gordon
Häftad, 2005
381 kr
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Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such …
Red Count
The Life and Times of Harry Kessler
Häftad, 2006
343 kr
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The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on the tumultuous transformation of art and politics that took place in modern Europe between 1890 and 1930. In the first half of his career Kessler was …
Germany in Transit
Nation and Migration, 1955-2005
Av Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
500 kr
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How does migration change a nation? "Germany in Transit" is the first sourcebook to illuminate the country's transition into a multiethnic society - from the arrival of the first guest workers in the mid-1950s to the most recent reforms in immigration and citizenship law. The book charts the highly …
Concise History of the Third Reich
Häftad, 2007
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271 kr
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This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich - from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German capitulation of May 1945. Originally published to rave …
