Counter-Modernism Between Right and Left in Wilhelmine Germany
Author : Kevin Douglas Repp
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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Kevin Douglas Repp
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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Kevin Douglas Repp
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Kevin Douglas Repp
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Kevin Repp
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2013-10
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ISBN : 9780674418349
"Modernity" was an inescapable fact of life for the first generation to come of age in the German Empire. Even the most extreme political opponents saw the chaotic transformation of all spheres of life in the wake of industrial capitalism as the central problem facing young men and women at the fin de siècle. This fresh look at Wilhelmine perceptions of modernity challenges both the traditional emphasis on anti-modernism as a peculiarly German response that led to the rise of National Socialism, and the more recent post-Foucauldian studies on the "pathologies of modernity," which point instead to an unreflective faith in science and efficiency on the part of German progressives. Shifting the focus away from radical extremes on either side, Kevin Repp explores the more moderate agendas of hundreds of mainstream intellectuals and activists from diverse social backgrounds who sought to surmount the human costs of industrialization without relinquishing its positive potential. Repp combines detailed case studies of Adolf Damaschke, Gertrud Bäumer, and Werner Sombart with an innovative prosopography of their milieu to show how leading reformers enlisted familiar tropes of popular nationalism, eugenics, and cultural pessimism in formulating pragmatic solutions that would be at once modern and humane. Easily obscured by radical voices on right and left, this quiet search for alternatives nevertheless succeeded in building a nationwide network of educational centers, associative ties, and institutions that substantially altered the landscape of Wilhelmine political culture in the decades before the First World War.
Author : Riccardo Bavaj
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2017-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1785335049
“The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
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Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History, Modern
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Page : 800 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Dissertation abstracts
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Author : Stanford University
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Kevin Repp
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674000575
"Repp combines detailed case studies of Adolf Damaschke, Gertrud Baumer, and Werner Sombart with an innovative prosopography of their milieu to show how leading reformers enlisted familiar tropes of popular nationalism, eugenics, and cultural pessimism in formulating pragmatic solutions that would be at once modern and humane."--BOOK JACKET.