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German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation

Lisa Marie Anderson

Author : Lisa Marie Anderson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401200516

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German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation by Lisa Marie Anderson Pdf

This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in Germany was infused with a thoroughly messianic strain. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, that strain is traced through the work of four important Expressionist playwrights: Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller and Franz Werfel. Moreover, these dramatists are brought into new and sustained dialogues with the theorists and philosophers of messianism who were their contemporaries: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, Gershom Scholem. In arguing, for example, that concepts like Bloch’s utopian self-encounter (Selbstbegegnung) and Benjamin’s messianic now-time (Jetztzeit) reappear as the framework for Expressionism’s staging of collective redemption in a new age, Anderson forges a previously underappreciated link in the study of Central European thought in the early twentieth century.

The Vanguard Messiah

Sami Sjöberg

Author : Sami Sjöberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110424522

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The Vanguard Messiah by Sami Sjöberg Pdf

In recent years the role of religion in the avant-garde has begun to attract scholarly interest. The present volume focuses on the work of the Romanian Jewish poet and visual artist Isidore Isou (1925–2007) who founded the lettrist movement in the 1940s. The Jewish tradition played a critical part in the Western avant-garde as represented by lettrism. The links between lettrism and Judaism are substantial, yet they have been largely unexplored until now. The study investigates the works of a movement that explicitly emphasises its vanguard position while relying on a medieval religious tradition as a source of radical textual techniques. It accounts for lettrism’s renunciation of mainstream traditions in favour of a subversive tradition, in this case Jewish mysticism. The religious inclination of lettrism also affects the notion of the avant-garde. The elements of the Jewish tradition in Isou’s theories and artistic production evoke a broader framework where religion and experimental art supplement each other.

The Aesthetics of Matter

Sarah Posman,Anne Reverseau,David Ayers,Sascha Bru,Benedikt Hjartarson

Author : Sarah Posman,Anne Reverseau,David Ayers,Sascha Bru,Benedikt Hjartarson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110317534

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The Aesthetics of Matter by Sarah Posman,Anne Reverseau,David Ayers,Sascha Bru,Benedikt Hjartarson Pdf

It has often been argued that the arrival of the early-20th-century avant-gardes and modernisms coincided with an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing. The European historical avant-gardes and modernisms excelled in their attempts to establish the specificity of media and art forms as well as in experimenting with the hybridity of the materials of their multiple disciplines. This third volume of the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies sheds light on the full range and import of this aspect in avant-garde and modernist aesthetics across all art forms and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The book’s contributions, written by experts from some 20 countries, seek to answer the following questions: What sort of objects and material, works and media help us to properly grasp the avant-garde and modernist “aesthetics of matter”? How were affects, emotions and sensory and bodily experiences transferred and transformed in the experiment with matter? How were “immaterial” things such as concepts of time changed in this aesthetic moment? What “material meanings” were disseminated in the cultural transfer and translation of objects? How did subsequent avant-gardes deal with the “aesthetics of matter” in their response to historical predecessors?

Women in German Expressionism

Anke Finger,Julie Shoults

Author : Anke Finger,Julie Shoults
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472903672

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Women in German Expressionism by Anke Finger,Julie Shoults Pdf

This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and representations of women’s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. How did women approach themes commonly considered to be characteristic of the Expressionist movement, and did they address other themes or aesthetics and styles not currently represented in the canon? Women in German Expressionism centers its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more nuanced ways, engaging solidly established theoretical and sociohistorical approaches that enhance and update our understanding of the material under investigation. It moves beyond the masculine, “New Man,” viewpoint so firmly associated with German Expressionism and examines alternative, critical, and divergent interpretations of the changing world at the time. This collection seeks to broaden the theorization, scholarship, and reception of German Expressionism by—much belatedly—including works by women, and by shifting or redefining firmly established concepts and topics carrying only the imprint of male authors and artists to this day.

Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde

Mark H. Gelber,Sami Sjöberg

Author : Mark H. Gelber,Sami Sjöberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110452907

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Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde by Mark H. Gelber,Sami Sjöberg Pdf

This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings linked to elements from Judaism or Jewish culture, thought, or history.

Ernst Toller and German Society

Robert Ellis

Author : Robert Ellis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611476361

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Ernst Toller and German Society by Robert Ellis Pdf

During the years of Weimar and the Third Reich, Toller was one of the more active of the "other Germany's" left-wing intellectuals. A leader of the Bavarian Soviet of 1919, he had in addition won the Kleist prize and was recognized as one of Germany's best playwrights. Indeed, during the years of the Weimar Republic, the popularity of his works was unquestioned. His first play, Die Wandlung, was soon sold out and required a second edition; his dramatic works and poems were translated into twenty-seven languages. During the 1920’s it was said that he "dominated the German and Russian theatre" and that he was the "most spectacular personality in modern German literature." It was common for contemporaries to classify him as one of the foremost German writers of the Weimar era. During the 1930s, as an exile, he popularized to foreign audiences the idea of “the other Germany”and became a leading spokesman against Hitler. However, it is Toller the social critic rather than Toller the dramatist with which thisbook is concerned, his ideas, his visions for Germany and Europe as transmitted in his works of fiction and prose. The book reflects on the responsibility an intellectual-critic has when writing about a democratic society (the Weimar Republic) that is unsuccessfully balancing between survival and annihilation. Toller was furthermore a Jewish intellectual. How did his religious traditions shape his views? He was also German and this raises a whole host of specifically Germanic patterns of looking at the world. He was also a left-wing intellectual and Toller is set in the broader context of left-wing intellectuals in Weimar and the Nazi era. A related reflection is to ask: so what? What difference did it make? How much of an influence do intellectuals have in the development of society? What is the relationship between intellectuals and their readers in a troubled society?

Becoming Austrians

Lisa Silverman

Author : Lisa Silverman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199794881

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Becoming Austrians by Lisa Silverman Pdf

The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews' former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy also created plenty of room for innovation and change in the realm of culture. Jews eagerly took up the challenge to fill this void, and they became heavily invested in culture as a way to shape their new, but also vexed, self-understandings. By isolating the years between the World Wars and examining formative events in both Vienna and the provinces, Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars demonstrates that an intensified marking of people, places, and events as "Jewish" accompanied the crises occurring in the wake of Austria-Hungary's collapse, with profound effects on Austria's cultural legacy. In some cases, the consequences of this marking resulted in grave injustices. Philipp Halsmann, for example, was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his father years before he became a world-famous photographer. And the men who shot and killed writer Hugo Bettauer and philosopher Moritz Schlick received inadequate punishment for their murderous deeds. But engagements with the terms of Jewish difference also characterized the creation of culture, as shown in Hugo Bettauer's satirical novel The City without Jews and its film adaptation, other texts by Veza Canetti, David Vogel, A.M. Fuchs, Vicki Baum, and Mela Hartwig, and performances at the Salzburg Festival and the Yiddish theater in Vienna. By examining the lives, works, and deeds of a broad range of Austrians, Lisa Silverman reveals how the social codings of politics, gender, and nation received a powerful boost when articulated along the lines of Jewish difference.

Behind the Angel of History

Annie Bourneuf

Author : Annie Bourneuf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226816708

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Behind the Angel of History by Annie Bourneuf Pdf

"This short book offers a dazzling new interpretation of Paul Klee's most famous work: his Angelus Novus (1920), which was purchased by Walter Benjamin and became the model for his Angel of History, a figure saturated with Jewish mysticism that he introduces in his "Theses on the Philosophy of History." In 2014 the celebrated American artist R. H. Quaytman made a surprising discovery about Klee's work when she examined it at the Jewish Museum in Israel. She realized that Klee had carefully pasted the Angelus down over another image, a face, leaving just a finger's breadth of it showing. Through forensic science and lots of sleuthing it was determined that face belonged to Martin Luther. Behind the Angel of History tells the story of how Quaytman solved the mystery of who lurks behind Klee's angel. It then plunges into questions about why a face long hidden beneath another picture might matter. The book travels through a tangle of loaded conversations among images-from Klee's Angelus to Benjamin's own drawing of a crucified angel, from Klee's Angelus to Quaytman's own layered panels meditating on its secret"--

Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921)

David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson

Author : David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780567685674

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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) by David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson Pdf

This volume offers an examination of Brecht's largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take as their starting point Brecht's own diaries from the time, which offer a vivid picture of the young Brecht shuttling between Munich and the family home in Augsburg, surrounded by friends, torn between women, desperate for success, and all the while with 'David on the brain'. The analysis of Brecht's David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germany's most tumultuous cultural periods. Drawing on theatrical experiments conducted with an ensemble from Trinity College Dublin, this volume includes the first ever translation of the David fragments in English, an extensive discussion of the theatrical afterlife of David in the early twentieth century as well as new interdisciplinary insights into the early Brecht: a writer entranced by the biblical David and utterly committed to translating the biblical tradition into his own evolving theatrical idiom.

Toward the Critique of Violence

Walter Benjamin

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781503627680

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Toward the Critique of Violence by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter for the first time in English provocative arguments about law and violence advanced by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller, Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer. A new translation of selections from Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence further illuminates Benjamin's critical program. The volume also includes, for the first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide additional context. With its challenging argument concerning violence, law, and justice—which addresses such topical matters as police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of religion—Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its publication in Weimar Germany a century ago.

Claiming the Dispossession

Vladimir Biti

Author : Vladimir Biti
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004353930

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Claiming the Dispossession by Vladimir Biti Pdf

The breakups of empires engendered in the newly established East Central European states both public and private feelings of dispossession. This gave rise to collective (historical) and individual (fictional) trauma narratives. The volume investigates their intended and unintended interaction

Acceleration of History

Alexios Alecou

Author : Alexios Alecou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498540698

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Acceleration of History by Alexios Alecou Pdf

We willingly imagine that the speed of development of events has always remained constant here on earth. This is reflected in the fact that it is generally believed that the rate of natural phenomena is the same today as it has always been in the past and will remain this way more or less in the future. It is, now, a fact that the speed of progression of events is not constant over time. It was ascertained that since around the beginning of the 20th century the rate has accelerated in various fields, hence the term "acceleration of history" came to describe this phenomenon. This acceleration continues its course today and will even intensify. Examples meeting these historical vaults in short time periods are many, either local or international, that contributed to the change of the direction of history. Under any circumstances though, the “mature” conditions for change are not enough without the human interference. This phenomenon has been referred to as the “acceleration of history” in order to emphasize the fact that if in the past a certain lapse of time was necessary for history to unfold—for the events to take place—today, and starting around the beginning of the 20th century, this time lapse was becoming increasingly shorter. The events today, therefore, have intensified much more than in the past. So, which are considered as the main acceleration periods in history? Which events or developments de-normalized or deeply reformed the then acceptable norms, either national or international? Which events or developments changed the hard bits of history? These are the questions that we will try to answer in this edited volume.

Hamann and the Tradition

Lisa Marie Anderson

Author : Lisa Marie Anderson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810166080

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Hamann and the Tradition by Lisa Marie Anderson Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of scholarly interest in the work of Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), across disciplines. New translations of work by and about Hamann are appearing, as are a number of books and articles on Hamann’s aesthetics, theories of language and sexuality, and unique place in Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment thought. Edited by Lisa Marie Anderson, Hamann and the Tradition gathers established and emerging scholars to examine the full range of Hamann’s impact—be it on German Romanticism or on the very practice of theology. Of particular interest to those not familiar with Hamann will be a chapter devoted to examining—or in some cases, placing—Hamann in dialogue with other important thinkers, such as Socrates, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics

Zrinka Božić

Author : Zrinka Božić
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031115578

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The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics by Zrinka Božić Pdf

This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy’s influential essay “La communauté désoeuvrée” as its starting point, tracing subsequent scholarship on community and adding new insights on avant-garde aesthetics and politics. Extensively exploring the communitarian dimension of avant-garde aesthetics and politics (focusing on artistic groups, intellectual circles and theoretical collectives), the author aims to bring literature and art into a philosophical examination of the paradoxical and complex idea of community.

Strangers to Nature

Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker

Author : Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739145494

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Strangers to Nature by Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker Pdf

Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how our actions affect animals. It is crucial that the human-animal relationship become more central to ethical inquiry. This volume brings together many of the leading scholars who work to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. The contributors examine the radical developments that change how we think about the status of non-human animals in our society and our moral obligations. Strangers to Natures will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about current human/non-human animal relationships.

German Expressionism And The Messianism Of A Generation

German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation by Lisa Marie Anderson Pdf

The Vanguard Messiah by Sami Sjöberg Pdf

The Aesthetics of Matter by Sarah Posman,Anne Reverseau,David Ayers,Sascha Bru,Benedikt Hjartarson Pdf

Women in German Expressionism by Anke Finger,Julie Shoults Pdf

Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde by Mark H. Gelber,Sami Sjöberg Pdf

Ernst Toller and German Society by Robert Ellis Pdf

Becoming Austrians by Lisa Silverman Pdf

Behind the Angel of History by Annie Bourneuf Pdf

Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) by David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson Pdf

Toward the Critique of Violence by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Claiming the Dispossession by Vladimir Biti Pdf

Acceleration of History by Alexios Alecou Pdf

Hamann and the Tradition by Lisa Marie Anderson Pdf

The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics by Zrinka Božić Pdf

Strangers to Nature by Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker Pdf

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