German Encounters with Modernity

German Encounters with Modernity

Author: Katherine Roper

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-08-21

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 9004610375

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The novels of Imperial Berlin, a rich repository of social discourse about the simultaneous experiences of nationhood and modernity in Imperial Germany, reveal distinct historical and cultural obstacles impeding authors' attempts to envision a humane, modern German identity.


Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India

Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India

Author: Joanne Miyang Cho

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1317931645

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Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German--Indian and South Asian Studies, the book looks at the history of German--Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and comparative approaches, it includes the entire twentieth century, from the First World War and Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and Cold War era. The book first examines the ways in which nineteenth-century "Indomania" figured in the creation of both German national identity and modern German scholarship on the Orient, and it illustrates how German encounters with India in the Imperial era alternately destabilized and reinforced the orientalist, capitalist, and nationalist underpinnings of German modernity. Contributors discuss the full range of German responses to India, and South Asian perceptions of Germany against the backdrop of war and socio-political revolution, as well as the Third Reich's ambivalent perceptions of India in the context of racism, religion, and occultism. The book concludes by exploring German--Indian relations in the era of decolonization and the Cold War. Employing a diverse array of interdisciplinary approaches to understanding German--Indian encounters over the past two centuries, this book is of interest to students and scholars of Germany, India, Europe, and Asia, as well as history, political science, anthropology, philosophy, comparative literature, and religious studies.


Encounters with Modernity

Encounters with Modernity

Author: Benjamin Ziemann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 178238345X

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During the three decades from 1945 to 1975, the Catholic Church in West Germany employed a broad range of methods from empirical social research. Statistics, opinion polling, and organizational sociology, as well as psychoanalysis and other approaches from the “psy sciences,” were debated and introduced in pastoral care. In adopting these methods for their own work, bishops, parish clergy, and pastoral sociologists tried to open the church up to modernity in a rapidly changing society. In the process, they contributed to the reform agenda of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Through its analysis of the intersections between organized religion and applied social sciences, this award-winning book offers fascinating insights into the trajectory of the Catholic Church in postwar Germany.


Mediating Modernity

Mediating Modernity

Author: Stefanie Harris

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780271035116

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"An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording"--Provided by publisher.


Women in the Metropolis

Women in the Metropolis

Author: Katharina von Ankum

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780520917606

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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 Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide range of their responses to the multifaceted urban culture of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. Examining a variety of media ranging from scientific writings to literature and the visual arts, the authors trace gendered discourses as they developed to make sense of and regulate emerging new images of femininity. Besides treating classic films such as Metropolis and Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, the articles discuss other forms of mass culture, including the fashion industry and the revue performances of Josephine Baker. Their emphasis on women's critical involvement in the construction of their own modernity illustrates the significance of the Weimar cultural experience and its relevance to contemporary gender, German, film, and cultural studies.


Spirit and System

Spirit and System

Author: Dominic Boyer

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2005-11-15

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780226068909

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Conservatism and Crisis

Conservatism and Crisis

Author: David J. Rosner

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 0739175513

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This book examines the crisis of values engendered by the advent of modernity, which still plagues the post-modern west today. The book examines anti-modernist thought as an attempt to reclaim traditional belief systems during a period of profound spiritual, political and economic upheaval. The dangers and psychological appeals of anti-modernism are examined in detail.


Weimar Modernism

Weimar Modernism

Author: David C. Durst

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780739110065

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In this work David C. Durst explores the development of modernism in the philosophy, politics, and culture of the first German Republic between 1918 and 1933. Through a reasoned critique of various Weimar intellectual figures such as Ernst Bloch, Martin Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno, Durst offers clarity and insight into the various aesthetic postures of the interwar period. From the cultural vibrancy of the early Weimar period to the eventual decay towards fascism and Nazi rule, Weimar Modernism provides a new and coherent way to examine this important era, which has often been presented in a fragmented manner


Modern Hungers

Modern Hungers

Author: Alice Autumn Weinreb

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 019060509X

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This text explores Germany's role in the two world wars and the Cold War to analyze the food economy of the twentieth century. It argues that controlling food supply and determining how and what people ate shaped the course of these three wars