Rosenzweig and Heidegger

Peter Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 33
• Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissa... Lees meer

Art of Suppression

Pamela M Potter

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 50
• This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research ha... Lees meer

Berlin Psychoanalytic

Veronika Fuechtner

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 43
• One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to thi... Lees meer

Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings

Siegfried Kracauer

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 45
• Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-tw... Lees meer

Munich and Memory

Gavriel D Rosenfeld

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 22
• Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collec... Lees meer

Walter Benjamin's Other History

Beatrice Hanssen

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 15
• Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it des... Lees meer

Walter Benjamin

Richard Wolin

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 7
• Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard ... Lees meer

The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany

Kay Schiller, Chris Young

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 42
• The 1972 Munich Olympics-remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team-were intended to showcase the New Germ... Lees meer

Metropolis Berlin

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 46
• Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemp... Lees meer

Berlin Electropolis

Andreas Killen

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 38
• Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a ca... Lees meer

The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany

Kay Schiller, Chris Young

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 42
• The 1972 Munich Olympics-remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team-were intended to showcase the New Germ... Lees meer

Beyond the Conceivable

Dan Diner

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 20
• The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the auth... Lees meer

The Red Count

Laird M Easton

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 30
• The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on th... Lees meer

Hollywood in Berlin

Thomas J Saunders

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 6
• The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders ... Lees meer

Weimar Surfaces

Janet Ward

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 27
• Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: m... Lees meer

The Weimar Republic Sourcebook

Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 3
• A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its poli... Lees meer

Cool Conduct

Helmut Lethen

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 17
• Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound know... Lees meer

Cinema and Experience

Miriam Hansen

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 44
• Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno-affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument-developed an astute philosop... Lees meer

We Weren't Modern Enough

Marsha Meskimmon

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
• Marsha Meskimmon furnishes a fresh perspective on the art of women in the Weimar Republic and in the process reclaims the lost history of a number of ... Lees meer

Women in the Metropolis

Katharina Von Ankum

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 11
• Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of mod... Lees meer

The Authority of Everyday Objects

Paul Betts

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 34
• From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associ... Lees meer

A Dubious Past

Elliot Y Neaman

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 19
• A Dubious Past examines from a new perspective the legacy of Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century German... Lees meer

From Monuments to Traces

Rudy Koshar

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 24
• Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been s... Lees meer

The Rule of Law Under Siege

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 9
• In the pathbreaking essays collected here, Neumann and Kirchheimer demonstrate that the death of democracy and the rise of fascism during the first ha... Lees meer