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Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains / Todd Samuel Presner.
LIBRA DS135.G33 P67 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Presner, Todd Samuel.
- Series:
- Cultures of history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Jews--Germany--Identity.
- Intellectual life.
- Germany.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Jews--Cultural assimilation--Germany.
- Jews--Cultural assimilation.
- German literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- German literature--Jewish authors.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Technology.
- Technology and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Dialectics at a standstill
- Berlin and Delos : Celan's no-places and Heidegger's homecomings : philosophy and poetry out of material history
- Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich station : German/Jewish subject without a nation : on the meta-epistemology of mobility and mass-migration
- The North Sea : Jews on ships : or, how Heine's Reisebilder deconstruct Hegel's philosophy of world history
- Nuremburg-Fürth-Palestine : some assembly required : global anxieties and corporeal fantasies of German/Jewish nationality
- Auschwitz : "the fabrication of corpses" : Heidegger, Arendt, and the modernity of mass death
- Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris : the railway ruins of modernity : Freud and Sebald on the narration of German/Jewish remains.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231140126
- 9780231140126
- 0231511582
- 9780231511582
- OCLC:
- 71275562
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