(Re)centring the Weimar Republic / edited by Katharina Clausius and Claudia Clausius.

Other author Clausius, Katharina, editor
Other author Clausius, Claudia, editor
Format Book
PublicationToronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2026]
Copyright Date©2026
Descriptionx, 287 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Center parties--Germany. --History. --20th century.
Political culture--Germany. --History. --20th century.
Democracy--Germany. --History. --20th century.
Germany--Politics and government. --1918-1933.
Germany--History. --1918-1933.
Germany--Intellectual life. --20th century.

SeriesGerman and European studies ;
German and European studies ; 62.
Contents Helmuth Plessner and the Ex-Centric Culture of the Weimar Republic / Howard Pollack-Milgate -- Weimar: The Reading Republic / Kerstin Barndt -- Minefield in the Centre: Berlin Politics and the Sklarek Affair (1929) / Tom Saunders -- Hollowing Out the Political Centre: Purging Parliamentarians and the Waning of the Weimar Republic / James McSpadden -- When the Centre Gives: The Balance of a Core Weltanschauung and Outside Pressure to Sustain the German Centre Party, 1925-1930 / Martin Menke -- (Re)Centring the Proletariat in Weimar Communist Politics: Karl Korsch's Struggle in the Ultra-Left / Marie-Josée Lavallée -- Weimar in the News: Analyzing German Mainstream Media Coverage (2007-2019) / Jill Suzanne Smith, Fernando Nascimento, and Barbara Levergood -- Exhibiting Democracy: On Putting the Weimar Republic into a Museum / Peter C. Caldwell -- Resounding Weimar's Cultural Legacy / Commentary and Interview with Ian Wekwerth and Johannes Ernst.
Abstract "(Re)Centring the Weimar Republic explores how centrist German politicians and intellectuals sought to foster stability and cooperation during the interwar period. In contrast to the persistent image of a democracy "hollowed out" by divisiveness and political extremism, this book offers a new perspective on the Republic's efforts to define and hold an ambitious and productive middle ground. Leading scholars and cultural practitioners from the fields of history, German studies, philosophy, literary studies, and music document the progressive activities of the Weimar Republic's "centre" to answer the question: how can political centrism employ social, cultural, and democratic institutions to resist polarization and extremism? This book's three sections reveal how key thinkers worked to balance pluralism and national identity, how politicians struggled to hold centrist positions across right-leaning, centrist, and left-leaning parties, and how contemporary culture today interprets those efforts for audiences in the press, the museum, and the concert hall. In today's age of stumbling democratic institutions and increasing political polarization, (Re)Centring the Weimar Republic offers a historical touchstone for evaluating liberal democracy pushed to its limits and the multipartisan efforts to reinforce its principles."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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