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.

The Weimar Years
The Weimar Years

Author: John Willett

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780500273111

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A visual history of this intriguing artistic period, featuring work by Dix, Grosz, Heartfield, Brecht, and more.

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 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

Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects
Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects

Author: Kathleen Canning

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9781845456894

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In spite of having been short-lived, "Weimar" has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic's place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany's defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship, empire and borderlands, visual culture, popular culture and consumption. This collection offers new perspectives from leading scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, film studies, and German studies on the vibrant political culture of Germany in the 1920s. From the traumatic ruptures of defeat, revolution, and collapse of the Kaiser's state, the visionaries of Weimar went on to invent a republic, calling forth new citizens and cultural innovations that shaped the republic far beyond the realms of parliaments and political parties.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Crime Stories
Crime Stories

Author: Todd Herzog

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781845454395

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The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public's reaction to their crimes. The author argues that the development of a new type of crime fiction during this period - which turned literary tradition on its head by focusing on the criminal and abandoning faith in the powers of the rational detective - is intricately related to new ways of understanding criminality among professionals in the fields of law, criminology, and police science. Considering Weimar Germany not only as a culture in crisis (the standard view in both popular and scholarly studies), but also as a culture of crisis, the author explores the ways in which crime and crisis became the foundation of the Republic's self-definition. An interdisciplinary cultural studies project, this book insightfully combines history, sociology, literary studies, and film studies to investigate a topic that cuts across all of these disciplines.