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Biological modernism : the new human in Weimar culture / Carl Gelderloos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gelderloos, Carl, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Germany.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Germany.
- Human beings in literature.
- Biology in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 226 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Biological Modernism details how German writers during the Weimar Republic drew on discourses and tropes from the biological sciences to redefine the human being for a modern, technological age"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Modern German Culture in a Life Crisis
- Helmuth Plessner's Eccentric Human among the Disciplines
- Photography's Natural Histories in the Weimar Republic
- Döblin's Epic Embodied
- Organic Modernization: Wholeness and Development in Ernst Jünger's The Worker
- Conclusion
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810141322
- 0810141329
- 9780810141339
- 0810141337
- OCLC:
- 1089872808
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