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

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 aesthe...

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Main Authors:Durst, David C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Lexington Books, c2004
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Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
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Summary: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
Item Description:Erschien zuerst als: The Germanic review ; vol. 77, No. 3. - Literaturverz. S. 209 - 224
Physical Description:XXXVI, 233 S Ill 24 cm
ISBN:0739107771
0739110063