Search Results - "Weimar"

The Mathematical Imagination : On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory / by Handelman, Matthew

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The Mathematical Imagination : On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory / by Handelman, Matthew

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Max Weber in politics and social thought from charisma to canonization / by Derman, Joshua, 1977-

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Max Weber in politics and social thought from charisma to canonization / by Derman, Joshua, 1977-

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Worldly philosopher the odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman / by Adelman, Jeremy

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Worldly philosopher the odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman / by Adelman, Jeremy

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Marlene Dietrich life and legend / by Bach, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings : 1901-1918 ; Two. Weimar and back : 1919-1921 ; Three. The sorcerer's apprentice : 1922-1927 ; Four. …”
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Marlene Dietrich life and legend / by Bach, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings : 1901-1918 ; Two. Weimar and back : 1919-1921 ; Three. The sorcerer's apprentice : 1922-1927 ; Four. …”
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The legacies of two world wars European societies in the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…: the Hague peace conferences as a limited tool for reforming the international system before 1914 / Jost D�ulffer -- "The spirit of 1914" : a critical examination of war enthusiasm in German society / Gerhard Hirschfeld -- Construction and deconstruction of the idea of French "war enthusiasm" in 1914 / Nicolas Beaupr�e -- The mood in Britain, 1914 / Hartmut von Pogge Strandmann -- The First World War in the history of the Weimar Republic / Gerd Krumreich -- Fascism and legacy of the Great War / Angelo Ventrone -- The French desire for peace and security in the 1920's / Jean-Claude Allain -- Britain in the wake in the Great War / Jay Winter -- Germany : war without public backing / Hans Mommsen -- The French entry into the war in September 1939 : between reluctans and resignation / Barbara Lambauer -- Great Britain : declaring war as a matter of honour / Lothar Kettenacker -- Disillusionment, pragmatism, indifference : German society after the "catastrophe" / Clemens Vollnhals -- The French after 1945 : difficulties and disappointments of an immediate post-war period / Fabrice Grenard -- Great Britain : remembering a just war (1945-1950) / Toby Haggith -- Italy after 1945 : war and peace, defeat and liberation / Gustavo Corni.…”
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The legacies of two world wars European societies in the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…: the Hague peace conferences as a limited tool for reforming the international system before 1914 / Jost D�ulffer -- "The spirit of 1914" : a critical examination of war enthusiasm in German society / Gerhard Hirschfeld -- Construction and deconstruction of the idea of French "war enthusiasm" in 1914 / Nicolas Beaupr�e -- The mood in Britain, 1914 / Hartmut von Pogge Strandmann -- The First World War in the history of the Weimar Republic / Gerd Krumreich -- Fascism and legacy of the Great War / Angelo Ventrone -- The French desire for peace and security in the 1920's / Jean-Claude Allain -- Britain in the wake in the Great War / Jay Winter -- Germany : war without public backing / Hans Mommsen -- The French entry into the war in September 1939 : between reluctans and resignation / Barbara Lambauer -- Great Britain : declaring war as a matter of honour / Lothar Kettenacker -- Disillusionment, pragmatism, indifference : German society after the "catastrophe" / Clemens Vollnhals -- The French after 1945 : difficulties and disappointments of an immediate post-war period / Fabrice Grenard -- Great Britain : remembering a just war (1945-1950) / Toby Haggith -- Italy after 1945 : war and peace, defeat and liberation / Gustavo Corni.…”
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Passionate Amateurs : Theatre, Communism, and Love / by Ridout, Nicholas Peter

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Passionate Amateurs : Theatre, Communism, and Love / by Ridout, Nicholas Peter

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Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism / by Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Masses : Vienna, 15 July 1927 (Elias Canetti -- Alfred Vierkandt -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Kraus -- Heimito von Doderer) -- Shooting Psychosis -- Not a Word About the Bastille -- Explaining the Crowd -- Representing Social Passions -- A Work of Madness -- Invincibles -- Mirror for Princes -- Workers on the Run -- Lashing -- Authority Versus Anarchy : Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature (Georg Simmel -- Werner Sombart -- Fritz Lang -- Leopold von Wiese -- Wilhelm Vleugels -- Gerhard Colm -- Max Weber -- Theodor Geiger -- August Sander -- Hermann Broch -- Ernst Toller -- Rainer Maria Rilke) -- The Missing Chapter -- Georg Simmel's Masses -- In Metropolis -- The Architecture of Society -- Steak Tartare -- Delta Formations -- Alarm Bells of History -- Sleepwalkers -- I Am Mass -- Rilke in the Revolution -- The Revolving Nature of the Social : Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities (Sigmund Freud -- Hans Kelsen -- Theodor Adorno -- Wilhelm Reich -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Bertolt Brecht -- Alfred Doblin -- Georg Grosz -- Robert Musil) -- Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- Masses Inside -- In Love with Many -- Primal Hordes -- Masses and Myths -- The Destruction of the Person -- The Flaneur-Medium of Modernity -- Ornaments of the People -- Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- Shapeless Lives -- Organizing the Passions -- Collective Vision : A Matrix for New Art and Politics (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Marianne Brandt -- Walter Benjamin -- Ernst Junger -- Edmund Schultz -- Willi Munzenberg -- Der Arbeiter-Fotograf -- Erwin Piscator -- Walther Gropius) -- Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- Johanna in the Revolution -- A Socialist Eye -- The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- Speaking Commodities -- Deus ex Machina -- Democracy's Veil -- The Face of the Masses -- Learning to Hold a Camera -- The Gaze of the Masses -- Total Theater -- Coda: Remnants of Weimar.…”
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Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism / by Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Masses : Vienna, 15 July 1927 (Elias Canetti -- Alfred Vierkandt -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Kraus -- Heimito von Doderer) -- Shooting Psychosis -- Not a Word About the Bastille -- Explaining the Crowd -- Representing Social Passions -- A Work of Madness -- Invincibles -- Mirror for Princes -- Workers on the Run -- Lashing -- Authority Versus Anarchy : Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature (Georg Simmel -- Werner Sombart -- Fritz Lang -- Leopold von Wiese -- Wilhelm Vleugels -- Gerhard Colm -- Max Weber -- Theodor Geiger -- August Sander -- Hermann Broch -- Ernst Toller -- Rainer Maria Rilke) -- The Missing Chapter -- Georg Simmel's Masses -- In Metropolis -- The Architecture of Society -- Steak Tartare -- Delta Formations -- Alarm Bells of History -- Sleepwalkers -- I Am Mass -- Rilke in the Revolution -- The Revolving Nature of the Social : Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities (Sigmund Freud -- Hans Kelsen -- Theodor Adorno -- Wilhelm Reich -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Bertolt Brecht -- Alfred Doblin -- Georg Grosz -- Robert Musil) -- Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- Masses Inside -- In Love with Many -- Primal Hordes -- Masses and Myths -- The Destruction of the Person -- The Flaneur-Medium of Modernity -- Ornaments of the People -- Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- Shapeless Lives -- Organizing the Passions -- Collective Vision : A Matrix for New Art and Politics (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Marianne Brandt -- Walter Benjamin -- Ernst Junger -- Edmund Schultz -- Willi Munzenberg -- Der Arbeiter-Fotograf -- Erwin Piscator -- Walther Gropius) -- Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- Johanna in the Revolution -- A Socialist Eye -- The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- Speaking Commodities -- Deus ex Machina -- Democracy's Veil -- The Face of the Masses -- Learning to Hold a Camera -- The Gaze of the Masses -- Total Theater -- Coda: Remnants of Weimar.…”
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Three-Way Street : Jews, Germans, and the Transnational /

Table of Contents: “…The Symphony of a Great Heimat: Zionism as a Cure for Weimar Crisis in Lerski's Avodah / Ofer Ashkenazi -- Part 2: Germany, the Portable Homeland. 5. …”
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Three-Way Street : Jews, Germans, and the Transnational /

Table of Contents: “…The Symphony of a Great Heimat: Zionism as a Cure for Weimar Crisis in Lerski's Avodah / Ofer Ashkenazi -- Part 2: Germany, the Portable Homeland. 5. …”
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Benjamin's Library : Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque / by Newman, Jane O.

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Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez / by Martin, Adrian, 1959-

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Benjamin's Library : Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque / by Newman, Jane O.

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Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez / by Martin, Adrian, 1959-

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