Sökt på: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
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![Women in the Metropolis](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/436072/women-in-the-metropolis.jpg)
Women in the Metropolis
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 …
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Profane Illumination
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 …
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Walter Benjamin's Other History
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 …
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Edgar G. Ulmer
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 …
![The Rule of Law Under Siege](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/7030253/the-rule-of-law-under-siege.jpg)
The Rule of Law Under Siege
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 …
![The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/5634258/the-nietzsche-legacy-in-germany.jpg)
The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany
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 …
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The Red Count
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 …
![Berlin Psychoanalytic](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/2868571/berlin-psychoanalytic.jpg)
Berlin Psychoanalytic
One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and …
![Weimar on the Pacific](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/10481262/weimar-on-the-pacific.jpg)
Weimar on the Pacific
In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, …
![Berlin Alexanderplatz](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/1110578/berlin-alexanderplatz.jpg)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
This fascinating exploration of a work that was the epitome of German literary modernism illuminates in chilling detail the death of the Weimar Republic's left-leaning culture of …
![A Dubious Past](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/4995610/a-dubious-past.jpg)
A Dubious Past
"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 …
![Art of Suppression](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/22042020/art-of-suppression.jpg)
Art of Suppression
This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and …