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  • - Writing the Nineteenth-century Nation
    af Brent O. Peterson
    738,95 kr.

    This study chronicles how German nationalism developed simultaneously with the historical novel and the field of history, both at universities and in middlebrow reading material. The book examines Germany's emerging national narrative as 19th-century writers adapted it to their own visions and to changing circumstances.

  • - An Intellectual Biography
    af Bernd Witte
    307,95 kr.

    This biography of Walter Benjamin provides an introduction to his thought.

  • af Richard Block
    743,95 kr.

  • af Katja Garloff
    673,95 kr.

  • - Essays on Franz Kafka
    af Walter H. Sokel
    578,95 kr.

    This collection of essays on Kafka seeks to place his writings in a very large cultural context by fusing Freudian and expressionist perspectives and incorporating more theoretical approaches, linguistic theory, Gnosticism, and aspects of Derrida, into its synthesis.

  • af Michael Gubser
    738,95 kr.

  • - The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema
     
    318,95 kr.

    The eight essays in this volume consider questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema. They analyse the periphery - the other spaces that are implicated, if not present, in the films themselves.

  • - German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz
    af Richard T. Gray
    648,95 kr.

    The art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded discipline.

  • - Political Perspectives on Images and Culture
    af Charlotte Schoell-Glass
    743,95 kr.

    Looks at the life and writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of Warburg's little-known political views. This work argues, based on archival research, that Warburg's work and teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and university scholarship.

  • - Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830
    af Karin A. Wurst
    808,95 kr.

    Fabricating Pleasure traces the creation of a unique form of domestic culture, showing how the bourgeoisie of late-18th- and early-19th-century Germany fused consumption with high culture. Author Karin Wurst illuminates the sociohistorical context and the emergence of the modern middle class, its differentiation, and its conception of culture.

  • af Gerhard Richter
    298,95 kr.

    Walter Benjamin is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in 20th-century Western culture. The author of this work shows that Benjamin's engagement with the political cannot be understood in terms of unified concepts, but rather should be understood from his language.