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Weimar modernism : philosophy, politics, and culture in Germany, 1918-1933 / David C. Durst.

Author/creator Durst, David C., 1963-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2004.
Descriptionxxxvi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction: Weimar modernism -- Ernst Bloch's theory of nonsimultaneity -- Berlin Dada, Carl Schmitt, Georg Lukács, and the critique of contemplation -- From contemplation to distraction : the culture of inflation and the inflation of culture -- The art of disappearance : Adorno's aesthetics of modernism and Alban Berg's music -- From distraction to mobilization : Ernst Jünger, photography, and the imperial gaze of the worker -- From mobilization to interruption : dialectic at a standstill or Walter Benjamin on the politicization of the aesthetic in Brecht's epic theater.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index.
LCCN 2004003382
ISBN0739107771 (alk. paper)
ISBN0739110063 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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