Moritz Föllmer

Individuality and Modernity in Berlin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an unprecedented account of the ways in which Nazi Germany manipulated and mobilized European literature, philosophy, painting, sculpture and music in support of its ideological ends. David B. Dennis reveals just how far activists twisted history, biography and aesthetics in an attempt to reshape the 'German mind'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781107521322
• ISBN-10: 1107521327
• Artikelnr.: 42403107

Autorenporträt

Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. His previous publications include Die Verteidigung der bürgerlichen Nation: Industrielle und hohe Beamte in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1900-1930 (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Weimar Berlin: 1. Risk, isolation and unstable selfhood
2. Flexibility, authenticity and consumption
3. Reform, scandal and extremism
Part II. Nazi Berlin: 4. Redefining legitimate individuality
5. Jewish Berliners' ambiguous quest for agency
6. Heroism, withdrawal and privatist loyalty
Part III. Post-War and Cold-War Berlin: 7. Defeat, self-help and the dissociation from Nazism
8. Socialist ambitions and individualist expectations
9. Anti-totalitarianism, domesticity and ambivalent modernity
Conclusion.