Author : Ernst Jünger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004698815
Copse 125
Ernst Jünger
Copse 125
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Copse 125
Ernst Jünger
Author : Ernst Jünger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : OCLC:156326115
Copse 125 by Ernst Jünger Pdf
Copse 125
Ernst Jünger
Author : Ernst Jünger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798647584236
Copse 125 by Ernst Jünger Pdf
Both memoir and essay, Copse 125 is an engaging and philosophical meditation on the nature of modern warfare in the era of the First World War, through a sustained and unified account of one aspect and episode, the battle at Rossignol Wood in France. Written in the early 1920s, several years after his classic Storm of Steel, Copse 125 also contains the essence of Jünger's thoughts on nationalism and the forging of a people in the furnace of heroic struggle.
The Heidegger Reader
Martin Heidegger
Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253353719
The Heidegger Reader by Martin Heidegger Pdf
Presents key texts from the entire course of Heidegger's philosophical career. This book offers insight into Heidegger's thought. It also traces the many thematic paths that are useful for developing a comprehensive understanding of Heidegger's most important work.
Copse 125
Ernst Jünger
Author : Ernst Jünger
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798599924739
Copse 125 by Ernst Jünger Pdf
Originally published in 1924, Copse 125 (Das Wäldchen 125) is Ernst Jünger's third book, where he further recounts his experiences in one particularly treacherous stretch of the Western Front. In Copes 125, Jünger chronicles the deadlocked positions of battle located in an "isolated little patch of wood" during the last year of the war. Along with his later recollections of the event, Jünger also shares his ruminations concerning the material and spiritual implications of the front line warrior. This is a new English translation of Das Wäldchen 125, published by E.S. Mittler & Son, Berlin, Germany, 1925.
A Nation of Fliers
Peter Fritzsche
Author : Peter Fritzsche
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674601222
A Nation of Fliers by Peter Fritzsche Pdf
Annotation Shows how the fascination of the German people with flight combined idealized notions of vitality and modernity with symbols of conquest over the natural and political worlds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Ernst Jünger and Germany
Thomas R. Nevin
Author : Thomas R. Nevin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822318792
Ernst Jünger and Germany by Thomas R. Nevin Pdf
For most of his life, Ernst Jünger, one of Europe's leading twentieth-century writers, has been controversial. Renowned as a soldier who wrote of his experience in the First World War, he has maintained a remarkable writing career that has spanned five periods of modern German history. In this first comprehensive study of Jünger in English, Thomas R. Nevin focuses on the writer's first fifty years, from the late Wilhelmine era of the Kaiser to the end of Hitler's Third Reich. By addressing the controversies and contradictions of Jünger, a man who has been extolled, despised, denounced, and admired throughout his lifetime, Ernst Jünger and Germany also opens an uncommon view on the nation that is, if uncomfortably, represented by him. Ernst Jünger is in many ways Germany's conscience, and much of the controversy surrounding him is at its source measured by his relation to the Nazis and Nazi culture. But as Nevin suggests, Jünger can more specifically and properly be regarded as the still living conscience of a Germany that existed before Hitler. Although his memoir of service as a highly decorated lieutenant in World War I made him a hero to the Nazis, he refused to join the party. A severe critic of the Weimar Republic, he has often been denounced as a fascist who prepared the way for the Reich, but in 1939 he published a parable attacking despotism. Close to the men who plotted Hitler's assassination in 1944, he narrowly escaped prosecution and death. Drawing largely on Jünger's untranslated work, much of which has never been reprinted in Germany, Nevin reveals Jünger's profound ambiguities and examines both his participation in and resistance to authoritarianism and the cult of technology in the contexts of his Wilhelmine upbringing, the chaos of Weimar, and the sinister culture of Nazism. Winner of Germany's highest literary awards, Ernst Jünger is regularly disparaged in the German press. His writings, as this book indicates, put him at an unimpeachable remove from the Nazis, but neo-Nazi rightists in Germany have rushed to embrace him. Neither apology, whitewash, nor vilification, Ernst Jünger and Germany is an assessment of the complex evolution of a man whose work and nature has been viewed as both inspiration and threat.
Muscular Judaism
Todd Samuel Presner
Author : Todd Samuel Presner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135982263
Muscular Judaism by Todd Samuel Presner Pdf
Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the 'Muscle Jew' developed as a political symbol of national regeneration.
The Kaiser's Army
David Stone
Author : David Stone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844862917
The Kaiser's Army by David Stone Pdf
In this comprehensive book, David Stone describes and analyses every aspect of the German Army as it existed under Kaiser Wilhelm II, encompassing its development and antecedents, organisation, personnel, weapons and equipment, its inherent strengths and weaknesses, and its victories and defeats as it fought on many fronts throughout World War I. The book deals in considerable detail with the origins and creation of the German army, examining the structure of power in German politics and wider society, and the nation's imperial ambitions, along with the ways in which the high command and general staff functioned in terms of strategy and tactical doctrine. The nature, background, recruitment, training and military experiences of the officers, NCOs and soldiers are examined, while personal and collective values relating to honour, loyalty and conscience are also analysed. There is also an evaluation of all aspects of army life such as conscription, discipline, rest and recuperation and medical treatment. In addition the army's operations are set in context with an overview of the army at war, covering the key actions and outcomes of major campaigns from 1914 to 1918 up to the signature of the Armistice at Compiègne. For anyone seeking a definitive reference on the German Army of the period – whether scholar, historian, serving soldier or simply a general reader – this remarkable book will prove an invaluable work.
Zero Hour
Georg Grabenhorst
Author : Georg Grabenhorst
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1570036624
Zero Hour by Georg Grabenhorst Pdf
An autobiographical novel of World War I experiences in the German ranks, Zero Hour equates duty with camaraderie and finds a balance between bitterness and hawkishness. The war is experienced here through the keen eyes of Hans Volkenborn, a well-bred officer-candidate whose youthful enthusiasm turns to angst and disillusion. The sole comfort of his experience is fellowship with his comrades, but even that abates over time.
The Moment of Rupture
Humberto Beck
Author : Humberto Beck
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296440
The Moment of Rupture by Humberto Beck Pdf
An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happens in the blink of an eye. For the ancient Greeks, kairos, the time in which exceptional, unrepeatable events occurred, was opposed to chronos, measurable, quantitative, and uniform time. In The Moment of Rupture, Humberto Beck argues that during the years of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of fascism in Germany, the notion of the instant migrated from philosophy and aesthetics into politics and became a conceptual framework for the interpretation of collective historical experience that, in turn, transformed the subjective perception of time. According to Beck, a significant juncture occurred in Germany between 1914 and 1940, when a modern tradition of reflection on the instant—spanning the poetry of Goethe, the historical self-understanding of the French Revolution, the aesthetics of early Romanticism, the philosophies of Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, and the artistic and literary practices of Charles Baudelaire and the avant gardes—interacted with a new experience of historical time based on rupture and abrupt discontinuity. Beck locates in this juncture three German thinkers—Ernst Jünger, Ernst Bloch, and Walter Benjamin—who fused the consciousness of war, crisis, catastrophe, and revolution with the literary and philosophical formulations of the instantaneous and the sudden in order to intellectually represent an era marked by the dissolution between the extraordinary and the everyday. The Moment of Rupture demonstrates how Jünger, Bloch, and Benjamin produced a constellation of figures of sudden temporality that contributed to the formation of what Beck calls a distinct "regime of historicity," a mode of experiencing time based on the notion of a discontinuous present.
Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity
Dagmar Barnouw
Author : Dagmar Barnouw
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253364272
Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity by Dagmar Barnouw Pdf
" . . . the range, power, and archival resourcefulness of Barnouw's book will make it impossible for anyone working in the field to ignore this powerful and disturbing historical meditation on the societal function and responsibility of the intellecutual." —The German Quarterly " . . . a work of real value for patient readers." —American Journal of Sociology " . . . a forceful and compelling thesis that challenges our understanding of several seminal figures writing during the first half of the century." —Monatshefte In this challenging study of a complex period, Barnouw investigates the works of seven representative figures of the Weimar republic: Walter Rahtenau, Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Jünger, Hermann Broch, and Alfred Döblin.
A History of Military Thought
Azar Gat
Author : Azar Gat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 0199247625
A History of Military Thought by Azar Gat Pdf
From the ideas of Clausewitz to contemporary doctrines of containment and cold war, this is a definitive history of modern military thought. A one-volume collection of Azar Gat's acclaimed trilogy, it traces the quest for a general theory of war from its origins in the Enlightenment.Beginning with a provocative critique of Clausewitz's classic work On War, the author unravels the endemic difficulties in Clausewitz's work that have baffled scholars for so long, clearly explaining the development of his ideas against the background of the Napoleonic revolution in war and theRomantic critique of the Enlightenment. He continues the story through the strategic ideas of the Prussian-German military school during the nineteenth century, the factors that shaped the 'cult of the offensive' in the French Army before the First World War, and the competing doctrines whichdominated naval warfare during the ages of sail and steam. In the final part of the trilogy, he shows how theories of mechanized war emerged throughout the industrial world in the first decades of the twentieth century and explains why their leading exponents were associated with fascism.Drastically re-evaluating B.H. Liddell Hart's contribution to strategic theory, the author argues that in the wake of the trauma of the First World War, and in response to the Axis challenge, Liddell Hart developed the doctrine of containment and cold war long before the advent of nuclear weapons.He reveals Liddell Hart as a pioneer of the modern western liberal way in warfare which is still with us today.
Mosby's Outdoor Emergency Medical Guide
David H. Manhoff
Author : David H. Manhoff
Publisher : Beechwood Healthbooks, Inc.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0916363147
Mosby's Outdoor Emergency Medical Guide by David H. Manhoff Pdf
This lifesaving guide shows and tells the untrained person what to do in an outdoor emergency until professional help arrives. Its easy-to-understand instructions and illustrations include care for heart attacks, strokes, open wounds, falls, choking, broken bones, animal and snake bites, insect stings, and dehydration.
Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War
Jason Crouthamel
Author : Jason Crouthamel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350083721
Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War by Jason Crouthamel Pdf
This book explores the impact of violence on the religious beliefs of front soldiers and civilians in Germany during the First World War. The central argument is that religion was the main prism through which men and women in the Great War articulated and processed trauma. Inspired by trauma studies, the history of emotions, and the social and cultural history of religion, this book moves away from the history of clerical authorities and institutions at war and instead focuses on the history of religion and war 'from below.' Jason Crouthamel provides a fascinating exploration into the language and belief systems used by ordinary people to explain the inexplicable. From Judeo-Christian traditions to popular beliefs and 'superstitions,' German soldiers and civilians depended on a malleable psychological toolbox that included a hybrid of ideas stitched together using prewar concepts mixed with images or experiences derived from the surreal environment of modern combat. Perhaps most interestingly, studying the front experience exposes not only lived religion, but also how religious beliefs are invented. Front soldiers in particular constructed new, subjective spiritual and religious concepts based on encounters with industrialized weapons, the sacred experience of comradeship, and immersion in mass death, which profoundly altered their sense of self and the supernatural. More than just a coping mechanism, religious language and beliefs enabled victims, and perpetrators, of violence to narrate concepts of psychological renewal and rebirth. In the wake of defeat and revolution, religious concepts shaped by the war experience also became a cornerstone of visions for radical political movements, including the National Socialists, to transform a shattered and embittered German nation. Making use of letters between soldiers and civilians, diaries, memoirs and front newspapers, Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War offers a unique glimpse into the belief systems of men and women at a turning point in European history.
