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German life and civilization, 0899-9899 ; vol. 68
German life and civilization ; v. 68. ^A674813
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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Back to the Future (Marc Silberman); 1 Goethe's Future: Nature, Technology, and Interpretation (John K. Noyes); Goethe's Future: The Future of the Past; Two Futures; Religion, Progress, and Commerce; Interpretation, Instrumental Reason, and the Failure of Utopia; Interpreting Nature and Imagining the Future; Bibliography; 2 Ernst Bloch's Geist der Utopie after a Century: A Janus-Faced Reading on the Trail of Hope (Johan Siebers); Bibliography; 3 Pass pro toto: European-Jewish Responses to State Narratives of Personhood (Mona Körte). |
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Brief Remarks on a Physiognomy of the Passport: Descriptio, Narratio, and Icon; Joseph Roth's Paperless Lives; Erich Maria Remarque's Die Nacht von Lissabon: The Occupational Profile "Passport Doctor"; Jean Malaquais's Planète sans visa: Material Processes of Authentication; Looking Ahead: Vladimir Vertlib and Katja Petrowskaja; Conclusion; Bibliography; 4 Strategies of Exile Photography: Helmar Lerski and Hans Casparius in Palestine (Ofer Ashkenazi); Exile and Photography; Hans Casparius's Bifocal Vision: The Demise of Weimar in Tel Aviv; Helmar Lerski's Tel Aviv: Zionism without Heimat. |
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Conclusion; Bibliography; 5 What Is Solidarity? Reading Hannah Arendt between Innovation and Tradition (David D. Kim); Innovating Tradition; From Schiller to Arendt; Crises in Solidarity; The Politics of Solidarity; Bibliography; 6 Affective Labors of Socialist Construction in Early East German Literature (Hunter Bivens); The East German 1950s and Superstructural Debt?; Socialism and Social Reproduction Theory; Affective Materials for Building Socialism; Socialist Obstinacy; Bibliography; 7 Brecht and Turkish Political Theater: Sermet Çağan's Savaş Oyunu (1964) (Ela Gezen); Bibliography. |
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8 Exhibiting Blackness: Blacks and German Culture Revisited (Katrin Sieg)Whiteness Studies at the Wisconsin Workshop; Brett Bailey's Exhibit B; "Squat Monument" at Museum Schöneberg-Tempelhof; Conclusion; Bibliography; 9 Last Liberals Standing? German Politics and Transcultural Readings of Populism (Crister S. Garrett); The Case of German Life and Civilization: A Model of Yesteryear?; Populism and Popular Politics, or, Just How Liberal is Germany?; Germany Struggles with Itself: Populism, Liberalism, and the Rise of the AfD and FDP; Conclusion; Bibliography. |
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10 Back to the Future of German Studies: Which Future? Which Past? (Frank Trommler)Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index. |
| Abstract |
In the course of the 1970s, interdisciplinary German studies emerged in North America, breaking with what many in the field saw as a suffocating and politically tainted tradition of canon-based philology by broadening both the corpus of texts and the framing concept of culture. |
| General note | Proceedings of the 50th Wisconsin Workshop held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 14-16, 2017. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 14, 2018). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Back to the future : tradition and innovation in German studies. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2018 x, 278 pages German life and civilization ; Volume 68 0899-9899 9781788743037 |
| Genre/form | Conference papers and proceedings. |
| ISBN | 9781788743044 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1788743040 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 5387773 Proquest Ebook Central |
