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Weimar modernism : philosophy, politics, and culture in Germany, 1918-1933 / David C. Durst.

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Van Pelt Library BH301.M54 D87 2004
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
xxxvi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2004]
Contents:
  • Introduction: Weimar modernism
  • Ernst Bloch's theory of nonsimultaneity
  • Berlin Dada, Carl Schmitt, Georg Lukács, and the critique of contemplation
  • From contemplation to distraction : the culture of inflation and the inflation of culture
  • The art of disappearance : Adorno's aesthetics of modernism and Alban Berg's music
  • From distraction to mobilization : Ernst Jünger, photography, and the imperial gaze of the worker
  • From mobilization to interruption : dialectic at a standstill or Walter Benjamin on the politicization of the aesthetic in Brecht's epic theater.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index.
ISBN:
  • 0739107771
  • 0739110063
OCLC:
54530448

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