Berlin S Forgotten Future

Author : Matt Erlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058286611

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Berlin's Forgotten Future by Matt Erlin Pdf

Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly minted metropolis challenged these intellectuals to engage in precisely the kind of nuanced thinking about history that has come to be seen as characteristic of the German Enlightenment. The author's demonstration of Berlin's historical-theoretical significance also provides perspective on the larger question of the city's impact on eighteenth-century German culture. Challenging the widespread idea that German intellectuals were anti-urban, the study reveals the extent to which urban sociability came to be seen by some as a problematic but crucial factor in the realization of their Enlightenment aims.

Author : James S. Amelang
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789637326547

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Writing Cities by James S. Amelang Pdf

Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself. But despite its obvious importance, historians have paid surprisingly little attention to urban discourse; its forms, themes, emphases and silences all invite further study. This book explores three dimensions of early modern citizens’ writing about their cities: the diverse social backgrounds of the men and women who contributed to urban discourse; their notions of what made for a beautiful city; and their use of dialogue as a literary vehicle particularly apt for expressing city life and culture. Amelang concludes that early modern urban discourse increasingly moves from oral discussion to take the form of writing. And while the dominant tone of those who wrote about cities continued to be one of celebration and glorification, over time a more detached and less judgmental mode developed. More and more they came to see their fundamental task as presenting a description that was objective.

Author : Eva Giloi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521761987

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Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 1750-1950 by Eva Giloi Pdf

A fascinating study of how ordinary German subjects collected and consumed royal relics and memorabilia.

Author : Kristin Poling
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822987857

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Germany’s Urban Frontiers by Kristin Poling Pdf

In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany’s many growing cities. Germany’s Urban Frontiers is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of German urban peripheries as the walls and boundaries that had so long defined central European cities disappeared. Through a series of local case studies including Leipzig, Oldenburg, and Berlin, Kristin Poling reveals how Germans on the edge of the city confronted not only questions of planning and control, but also their own histories and futures as a community.

Author : Bonnie S. Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199756247

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The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter by Bonnie S. Anderson Pdf

"Early feminist Ernestine Rose, more famous in her time than Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B. Anthony, has been undeservedly forgotten. During the 1850s, Rose was an ... orator for women's rights in the United States who became known as 'the queen of the platform.' Yet despite her successes and close friendships with other activists, she would gradually be erased from history for being a foreigner, a radical, and, of most concern to her peers and later historians, an atheist. In [this book], Bonnie S. Anderson recovers the legacy of one of the nineteenth century's most prominent radical activists"--

Author : Birgit Tautz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271080499

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Translating the World by Birgit Tautz Pdf

In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany’s emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar. German literary history has tended to employ a conceptual framework that emphasizes the nation or idealized citizenry, yet the experiences of readers in eighteenth-century German cities existed within the context of their local environments, in which daily life occurred and writers such as Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe worked. Hamburg, a flourishing literary city in the late eighteenth century, was eventually relegated to the margins of German historiography, while Weimar, then a small town with an insular worldview, would become mythologized for not only its literary history but its centrality in national German culture. By interrogating the histories of and texts associated with these cities, Tautz shows how literary styles and genres are born of local, rather than national, interaction with the world. Her examination of how texts intersect and interact reveals how they shape and transform the urban cultural landscape as they are translated and move throughout the world. A fresh, elegant exploration of literary translation, discursive shifts, and global cultural changes, Translating the World is an exciting new story of eighteenth-century German culture and its relationship to expanding global networks that will especially interest scholars of comparative literature, German studies, and literary history.

Author : Helena Rosenblatt,Paul Schweigert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107105768

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Thinking with Rousseau by Helena Rosenblatt,Paul Schweigert Pdf

Rousseau's relation to the Western intellectual tradition is re-examined through a series of 'conversations' between Rousseau and other 'great thinkers'.

Author : James Furner
Publisher : Arena books
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0954316177

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The Girl from East Berlin by James Furner Pdf

This is a realistic drama set in Berlin immediately prior to the building of the Wall--a poignant story of true love intercepted by the political conflict and intrigues of the East-West power blocs.

Author : Fritz Wagner,Riad Mahayni,Andreas Piller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317007692

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Transforming Distressed Global Communities by Fritz Wagner,Riad Mahayni,Andreas Piller Pdf

Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters. Our long-held assumptions about man and nature and how they interact are defunct. We realize now that we can no longer continue to build without addressing the long-term impacts of our actions and their spillovers. Energy and natural resources are finite. The way we configure economies has come into question. In the developed world, especially in the United States, infrastructure and the notions that underpin it are outdated. Meanwhile, the developing world is experiencing major, rapid transformations in lifestyles and economies that are affecting billions of people and requiring a whole new way of planning human settlements. Cities are the key to our future; they represent the most effective vehicle for positive advancements in the human condition and environmental change. This volume argues for the need to redesign and re-plan our cities in holistic ways that reflect our new understanding and relate to their diversity and multi-dimensionality. Presenting a range of case studies from around the world, this volume examines how these distressed cities are dealing with these issues in planning for their future. Alongside these empirical chapters are philosophical essays that consider the future of distressed cities. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations, private consulting firms, international organizations and foundations, and policy officials, this volume provides a unique and comprehensive overview on how to transform distressed communities into more livable places.

Author : Lorna Martens
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674275096

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The Promise of Memory by Lorna Martens Pdf

Readers once believed in Proust’s madeleine and in Wordsworth’s recollections of his boyhood—but that was before literary culture began to defer to Freud’s questioning of adult memories of childhood. In this first sustained look at childhood memories as depicted in literature, Lorna Martens reveals how much we may have lost by turning our attention the other way. Her work opens a new perspective on early recollection—how it works, why it is valuable, and how shifts in our understanding are reflected in both scientific and literary writings. Science plays an important role in The Promise of Memory, which is squarely situated at the intersection of literature and psychology. Psychologists have made important discoveries about when childhood memories most often form, and what form they most often take. These findings resonate throughout the literary works of the three writers who are the focus of Martens’ book. Proust and Rilke, writing in the modernist period before Freudian theory penetrated literary culture, offer original answers to questions such as “Why do writers consider it important to remember childhood? What kinds of things do they remember? What do their memories tell us?” In Walter Benjamin, Martens finds a writer willing to grapple with Freud, and one whose writings on childhood capture that struggle. For all three authors, places and things figure prominently in the workings of memory. Connections between memory and materiality suggest new ways of understanding not just childhood recollection but also the artistic inclination, which draws on a childlike way of seeing: object-focused, imaginative, and emotionally intense.

Author : Gul Kacmaz Erk,Rebecca–Jane McConnell
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781957792118

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Slicing Spaces: Performance of Architecture in Cinema by Gul Kacmaz Erk,Rebecca–Jane McConnell Pdf

As suggested in the title, Slicing Spaces: Performance of Architecture in Cinema, this project slices through the multifaceted layers of film space. The text investigates how architecture performs as an altruist, proving that environed space is not merely a backdrop in film scenes, but an active performing character. The performance of architecture varies depending on what the filmmakers wish the viewer to feel, whether it is fear, compassion or joy. Considerations take an interdisciplinary approach, not solely observing film and architecture but also studying the likes of urbanism, politics, philosophy, history, psychology, art and design. The substantial spectrum of opinions from contributing authors allows the reader to absorb the diverse relationships of architecture in cinema, inviting the reader to form their own opinions on the topic and inspiring a new way of thinking. Slicing Spaces explores the interconnected relationship between architecture and film via distinct approaches to spaces of the city, confinement, actuality, the psyche and the imagination. Diverse views on cinematic architecture are probed, such as the psychological ramifications of film architecture, the portrayals of the city as a character and the potentials of exploring fantastic places in film. Overall, the book focuses on the authoritative contribution of architecture to the realm of filmmaking. It uncovers a path to look at lived spaces of architectural design from an alternative perspective, be it interiors, buildings or cities. Utilising the architectural ingenuity of drawings and graphics, the collection takes the reader on a visual journey as well as one through narratives.

Author : Lucia Berlin
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374718312

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Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin Pdf

"Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Kirkus, and Lit Hub. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, ELLE, TIME, Nylon, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Newsday, HuffPost, Bustle, The A.V. Club, The Millions, BUST, Reinfery29, Fast Company and MyDomaine. A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper’s Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews. The book’s author, Lucia Berlin, earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Berlin’s remaining stories—twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. From Texas to Chile, Mexico to New York City, Berlin finds beauty in the darkest places and darkness in the seemingly pristine. Evening in Paradise is an essential piece of Berlin’s oeuvre, a jewel-box follow-up for new and old fans.

Author : Daniel A. Bell,Avner de-Shalit
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400848263

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The Spirit of Cities by Daniel A. Bell,Avner de-Shalit Pdf

A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thought Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. In the ancient world, Athens was synonymous with democracy and Sparta represented military discipline. In this original and engaging book, Daniel Bell and Avner de-Shalit explore how this classical idea can be applied to today's cities, and they explain why philosophy and the social sciences need to rediscover the spirit of cities. Bell and de-Shalit look at nine modern cities and the prevailing ethos that distinguishes each one. The cities are Jerusalem (religion), Montreal (language), Singapore (nation building), Hong Kong (materialism), Beijing (political power), Oxford (learning), Berlin (tolerance and intolerance), Paris (romance), and New York (ambition). Bell and de-Shalit draw upon the richly varied histories of each city, as well as novels, poems, biographies, tourist guides, architectural landmarks, and the authors' own personal reflections and insights. They show how the ethos of each city is expressed in political, cultural, and economic life, and also how pride in a city's ethos can oppose the homogenizing tendencies of globalization and curb the excesses of nationalism. The Spirit of Cities is unreservedly impressionistic. Combining strolling and storytelling with cutting-edge theory, the book encourages debate and opens up new avenues of inquiry in philosophy and the social sciences. It is a must-read for lovers of cities everywhere. In a new preface, Bell and de-Shalit further develop their idea of "civicism," the pride city dwellers feel for their city and its ethos over that of others.

Author : Adrian Daub,Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781571139771

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Goethe Yearbook 24 by Adrian Daub,Elisabeth Krimmer Pdf

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and his age, featuring in this volume a special section on the poetics of space in the Goethezeit.

Author : Joaquim Carvalho
Publisher : Plus
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X030087565

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Religion, Ritual and Mythology by Joaquim Carvalho Pdf