Weimar Culture And Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers By Paul Forman And Contemporary Perspectives On The Forman Thesis
Weimar Culture And Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers By Paul Forman And Contemporary Perspectives On The Forman Thesis

Author: Alexei B Kojevnikov

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2011-05-11

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9814465933

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This volume reprints Paul Forman's classic papers on the history of the scientific profession in post-World War I Germany and the invention of quantum mechanics. The Forman thesis became famous for its demonstration of the cultural conditioning of scientific knowledge, in particular by showing the historical connection between the culture of Weimar Germany — known for its irrationality and antiscientism — and the emerging concept of quantum acausality. From the moment of its publication, Forman's research provoked intense historical and philosophical debates. In 2007, participants at an international conference in Vancouver, Canada, discussed the implications of the Forman thesis for contemporary historiography. Their contributions collected in this volume represent cutting-edge research on the history of the quantum revolution and of German science.

Weimar
Weimar

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Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1412818435

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Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.

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.

Weimar Germany
Weimar Germany

Author: Eric D. Weitz

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0691183058

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"Weimar Centennial edition with a new preface by the author."--Title page.

The Jazz Republic
The Jazz Republic

Author: Jonathan O. Wipplinger

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2017-04-14

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 047205340X

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Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Author: Peter Jelavich

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-03-31

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0520259971

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Jelavich examines Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel 'Berlin Alexanderplatz', which questioned the autonomy & coherence of the human personality in the modern metropolis, & traces the discrepancies that radically altered the work when it was adapted for radio & as a motion picture.

The Weimar Republic Sourcebook
The Weimar Republic Sourcebook

Author: Anton Kaes

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13: 9780520067745

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Reproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section.

Weimar Surfaces
Weimar Surfaces

Author: Janet Ward

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001-04-04

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780520924734

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Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture, analyzing the power that 1920s Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.

Weimar Culture Revisited
Weimar Culture Revisited

Author: J. Williams

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2013-10-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137347183

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Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for German's everyday lives during this fateful era.