Antifascist Humanism And The Politics Of Cultural Renewal In Germany

Author : Andreas Agocs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1108230903

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Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany by Andreas Agocs Pdf

Antifascism is usually described as either a political ideology of activists and intellectuals confronting the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini, or as a cynical tool that justified the Stalinist expansion of communism in Europe. Andreas Agocs widens our understanding of antifascism by placing it in the context of twentieth-century movements of 'cultural renewal'. He explores the concept of 'antifascist humanism', the attempt by communist and liberal intellectuals and artists to heal the divisions of Nazism by reviving the 'other Germany' of classical Weimar. This project took intellectual shape in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America during World War II and found its institutional embodiment in the Cultural League for Democratic Renewal in Soviet-occupied Berlin in 1945. During the emerging Cold War, antifascist humanism's uneasy blend of twentieth-century mass politics and cultural nationalism became the focal point of new divisions in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic Republic. This study traces German traditions of cultural renewal from their beginnings in antifascist activism to their failure in the emerging Cold War.

Author : Andreas Agocs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X83533

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Contesting the "other Germany" by Andreas Agocs Pdf

Author : Andreas Agocs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107085435

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Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany by Andreas Agocs Pdf

A study of German traditions of cultural renewal from their origins in antifascist activism in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America during World War II to their failure during the emerging Cold War in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic Republic.

Author : Martha Sprigge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197546321

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Socialist Laments by Martha Sprigge Pdf

The Ruin -- The Socialists' Cemetery -- The Church -- Concentration Camp Memorials -- The Artists' Cemetery.

Author : Alexander Mathäs
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789205633

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Beyond Posthumanism by Alexander Mathäs Pdf

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges that the humanities face today, this volume recasts the question of their viability by tracing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. Through insightful analyses of key texts, Alexander Mathäs mounts a broad defense of the humanistic tradition, emphasizing its pursuit of a universal ethics and ability to render human experiences comprehensible through literary imagination.

Author : Hana Worthen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030440664

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Humanism, Drama, and Performance by Hana Worthen Pdf

This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and performance history and studies today. From Aristotle onward, theatre has been regulated by three strains of critical poiesis: the literary, segregating theatre and the practices of the spectacular from the humanizing work attributed to the book and to the internality of reading; the dramatic, approving the address of theatrical performance only to the extent that it instrumentalizes literary value; and the theatrical, assimilating performance to the conjunction of literary and liberal values. These values have been used to figure not only the work of theatre, but also the propriety of the audience as a figure for its socializing work, along a privileged dualism from the aestheticized ensemble—harmonizing actor, character, and spectator to the essentialized drama—to the politicized assembly, theatre understood as an agonistic gathering.

Author : Alice Goff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226827100

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The God Behind the Marble by Alice Goff Pdf

"This book tells the story of how Germans struggled to make art an autonomous instrument of social progress in the face of real-world challenges between 1790-1850. For philosophers such as Friedrich Schiller, a work of art was governed by its own laws and soared above trivial constraints; thus, a painting or sculpture could both model and stimulate the moral autonomy of its beholders. This "aesthetic education" (to be conducted in the newish institution of museums) would yield an "aesthetic state," born of the measured reason of its citizens rather than the fractious antagonisms of mobs and tyrants. But highbrows like Schiller failed to consider the tough realities facing art "on the ground." Not only were there no proper museums in the German states for presenting art to the public, the systematic looting of their art collections during the Napoleonic wars had thrown the very ontological status of art into serious question: What was a painted altarpiece supposed to be once it had been torn out of a Church and reinstalled in a secular space? How would a marble statue of a nude Apollo impact modern viewers-especially unmarried young ladies not used to such sights? And how could a stolen object symbolize freedom? As art works fell prey to the very violence they were supposed to transcend, social theorists began to wonder how art could deliver liberation if it could so quickly end up a spoil of war. Among the specimens considered are forty porphyry columns from the tomb of Charlemagne in Aachen; the Quadriga from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin; the Laocoön group from Rome; a bronze medieval reliquary from Goslar; a Last Judgment from Danzig; and, last, but surely not least, the mummified body of an official from the Rhenish hamlet of Sinzig"--

Author : Seth Howes
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140684

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Moving Images on the Margins by Seth Howes Pdf

Documents the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of experimental filmmaking-a form that thrived despite having been officially banned-in East German socialism's final years.

Author : Ned Richardson-Little
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424677

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The Human Rights Dictatorship by Ned Richardson-Little Pdf

Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.

Author : Elizabeth Otto,Patrick Rössler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501344800

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Bauhaus Bodies by Elizabeth Otto,Patrick Rössler Pdf

A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. Bauhaus Bodies reassesses the work of both well-known Bauhaus members and those who have unjustifiably escaped scholarly scrutiny, its women in particular. In fourteen original, cutting-edge essays by established experts and emerging scholars, this book reveals how Bauhaus artists challenged traditional ideas about bodies and gender. Written to appeal to students, scholars, and the broad public, Bauhaus Bodies will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern art, architecture, design history, and gender studies; it will define conversations and debates during the 2019 centenary of the Bauhaus's founding and beyond.

Author : Andreas Agocs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1108707696

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Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany by Andreas Agocs Pdf

Antifascism is usually described as either a political ideology of activists and intellectuals confronting the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini, or as a cynical tool that justified the Stalinist expansion of communism in Europe. Andreas Agocs widens our understanding of antifascism by placing it in the context of twentieth-century movements of 'cultural renewal'. He explores the concept of 'antifascist humanism', the attempt by communist and liberal intellectuals and artists to heal the divisions of Nazism by reviving the 'other Germany' of classical Weimar. This project took intellectual shape in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America during World War II and found its institutional embodiment in the Cultural League for Democratic Renewal in Soviet-occupied Berlin in 1945. During the emerging Cold War, antifascist humanism's uneasy blend of twentieth-century mass politics and cultural nationalism became the focal point of new divisions in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic Republic. This study traces German traditions of cultural renewal from their beginnings in antifascist activism to their failure in the emerging Cold War.

Author : Peter Uwe Hohendahl,Klaus L. Berghahn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803272324

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A History of German Literary Criticism by Peter Uwe Hohendahl,Klaus L. Berghahn Pdf

First published in Germany in 1985, Geschichte der deutschen Literaturkritik was quickly recognized as the most original and comprehensive study to date of a proud critical tradition including such giants as Lessing, Goethe, and Heine. Now translated into English, it will serve as a model for a new approach to literary history in America and elsewhere, one emphasizing the connections of criticism with other public discourse. The editor, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, has provided an introduction and a chapter, "Literary Criticism in the Epoch of Liberalism,"translated by Jeffrey S. Librett. Filling in the history of German criticism from the Enlightenment to the present are Klaus L. Berghahn of the University of Wisconsin, "From Classicist to Classical Literary Criticism, 1730-1806," translated by John R. Blazek; Jochen Schulte-Sasse, University of Minnesota, "The Concept of Literary Criticism in Romanticism"; Russell A. Berman, Stanford University, "Literary Criticism from Empire to Dictatorship, 1870-1933,"; translated by Simon Srebrny; and Bernhard Zimmerman, University of Tübingen, "Developments in German Literary Criticism from 1933 to the Present," translated by Franz Blaha.

Author : Mary Fulbrook,Andrew I. Port
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857459756

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Becoming East German by Mary Fulbrook,Andrew I. Port Pdf

For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain – while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.

Author : John Horne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521561124

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State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War by John Horne Pdf

This is a volume of comparative essays on the First World War that focuses on one central feature: the political and cultural "mobilization" of the populations of the main belligerent countries in Europe behind the war. It explores how and why they supported the war for so long (as soldiers and civilians), why that support weakened in the face of the devastation of trench warfare, and why states with a stronger degree of political support and national integration (such as Britain and France) were ultimately successful.

Author : Kieran Durkin,Joan Braune
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350087033

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Erich Fromm's Critical Theory by Kieran Durkin,Joan Braune Pdf

Interest in Fromm is increasing: as a prominent Marxist, sociologist, psychoanalytic theorist, and public intellectual, the unique normative-humanist thrust of his writings provides a crucial critical reference point for those seeking to understand and transcend the societal pathologies of our age. The essays in this volume retrieve, revive, and expand upon Fromm's central insights and contributions. They offer a critical theory of culture, the self, psychology and society that goes beyond what is typical of the narrower concerns of the fragmented and isolated disciplines of today, demonstrating the pan-disciplinary potential of Fromm's work. But this book does not simply reassert Fromm's ideas and rehash his theories, but rather reconstructs them to bring them into meaningful dialogue with contemporary ideas and cultural, political and economic developments. Providing new approaches to Fromm's ideas and work brings them up-to-date with contemporary problems and debates in theory and society and helps us understand the challenges of our times.