The Power Of Intellectuals In Contemporary Germany

Author : Michael Geyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226289869

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The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany by Michael Geyer Pdf

The German Democratic Republic has become the subject of novels, memoirs and films, and the backdrop for general debates over the power of intellectuals in contemporary media and society. This collection considers the demise of the GDR and its impact on the place of intellectuals.

Author : Michael Geyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226289877

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The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany by Michael Geyer Pdf

The German Democratic Republic has become the subject of novels, memoirs and films, and the backdrop for general debates over the power of intellectuals in contemporary media and society. This collection considers the demise of the GDR and its impact on the place of intellectuals.

Author : Axel Fair-Schulz,Mario Kessler
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739150481

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German Scholars in Exile by Axel Fair-Schulz,Mario Kessler Pdf

German Scholars in Exiledeals with intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany and found refuge in either the United States or in American Services in Great Britain and post-WWII Germany. The volume focuses on scholars who were outside the commonly known Max Horkheimer-Hannah Arendt circles, who are less well-known but not less important. Their experiences ranged from an outstanding career at an Ivy-League university to a return to the German Democratic Republic and a position as an economic advisor to East Berlin's party leadership. None had actual political power, but many asserted some degree of influence. Their intellecutal legacies can still be seen in today's political culture.

Author : Sean A. Forner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107049574

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German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal by Sean A. Forner Pdf

This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Focusing on a loose network of public intellectuals in the immediate postwar years, Sean Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazism and scour Germany's ambivalent political and cultural traditions for materials with which to build a better future. In doing so, he reveals, they formulated an internally variegated but distinctly participatory vision of democratic renewal - a paradoxical counter-elitism of intellectual elites. Although their projects ran aground on internal tensions and on the Cold War, their commitments fueled critique and dissent in the two postwar Germanys during the 1950s and thereafter. The book uncovers a conception of political participation that went beyond the limited possibilities of the Cold War era and influenced the political struggles of later decades in both East and West.

Author : A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 0511354673

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German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past by A. Dirk Moses Pdf

West German intellectuals have debated the Nazi past and democratic future of their country in increasingly polarized arguments.

Author : Sean Forner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1316076652

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German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal by Sean Forner Pdf

"This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust. Focusing on a diverse network of intellectual elites in the immediate postwar years, Professor Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazism and scour Germany's ambivalent political and cultural traditions for materials with which to build a better future. In doing so, he reveals how they formulated an internally variegated, but distinctly participatory vision of democratic renewal - a paradoxical counter-elitism of intellectual elites. Although their projects ran aground on internal tensions and on the Cold War, their commitments fuelled critique and dissent in both East and West Germany in the 1950s. The book uncovers a conception of political participation that went beyond the limited possibilities of the Cold War era and which would influence the political struggles of later decades in Germany and across the globe"--

Author : Lars Karl,Pavel Skopal
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782389972

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Cinema in Service of the State by Lars Karl,Pavel Skopal Pdf

The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization, de-Stalinization, and the conservative retrenchment of the late 1950s. This volume comprehensively explores the postwar film cultures of both nations, using a “stereoscopic” approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a richly contextualized portrait. Ranging from features to children’s cinema to film festivals, the studies gathered here provide new insights into the ideological, political, and economic dimensions of Cold War cultural production.

Author : Larry Frohman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789209471

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The Politics of Personal Information by Larry Frohman Pdf

In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization, the expansion, bureaucratization, and computerization of population surveillance disrupted the norms that had governed the exchange and use of personal information in earlier decades and gave rise to a set of distinctly postindustrial social conflicts centered on the use of personal information as a means of social governance in the welfare state. Combining vast archival research with a groundbreaking theoretical analysis, this book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany at the dawn of the information society.

Author : Dominic Boyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226068916

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Spirit and System by Dominic Boyer Pdf

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Author : Sara Jones
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110237962

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Complicity, Censorship and Criticism by Sara Jones Pdf

This study develops an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, examining the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from a literary and historical perspective. Divided into three case studies, the work focuses on writers positioned along a spectrum of conformity and dissent and who had quite different relationships to political power: Hermann Kant, Stefan Heym and Elfriede Brüning. Drawing on and comparing unpublished archive material, autobiography and the literary output of the three named writers, this study brings to the fore the ambiguities and contradictions of intellectual life in the GDR. Tensions between the different sources point towards tensions inherent in the subject positions of writers, publishers, reviewers and cultural authorities. This granular approach to the study of GDR cultural history challenges top-down interpretations and builds into a theoretical understanding of GDR cultural life based on the concepts of ambiguity and ambivalence and the increasing fragmentation of ideology. Comparison with other spheres of GDR life points towards the significance of these concepts for the study of East German society as a whole.

Author : Anke Pinkert
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253351036

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Film and Memory in East Germany by Anke Pinkert Pdf

Rethinks the politics of public memory in East German film

Author : John Aloysius McCarthy,Walter Grünzweig,Thomas Koebner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 157181034X

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The Many Faces of Germany by John Aloysius McCarthy,Walter Grünzweig,Thomas Koebner Pdf

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the shifting of American foreign policy away from "old" Europe, long-established patterns of interaction between Germany and the U.S. have come under review. Although seemingly disconnected from the cultural and intellectual world, political developments were not without their influence on the humanities and their curricula during the past century. In retrospect, we can speak of the many different roles Germany has played in American eyes. The Many Faces of Germany seeks to acknowledge the importance of those incarnations for the study of German culture and history on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the major questions raised by the contributors is whether the transformations in the transatlantic dynamics and in the importance of Germany for the U.S. have had a major influence on the study of things German in the U.S. internally. The volume gathers together leading voices of the older and younger generations of social historians, literary scholars, film critics, and cultural historians.

Author : Elaine Kelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199998098

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Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic by Elaine Kelly Pdf

"Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republis uses the reception of the Germanic musical heritage to chart the changing landscape of musical culture in the German Democratic Republic. Author Elaine Kelly demonstrates the nuances of musical thought in the state, revealing a model of societal ascent and decline that has implications that reach far beyond studies of the GDR itself"--Jacket.

Author : Todd Herzog,Anna Senuysal,Tanja Nusser
Publisher : Verlag Wilhelm Fink
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783846761939

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25 Years Berlin Republic by Todd Herzog,Anna Senuysal,Tanja Nusser Pdf

25 Years Berlin Republic takes stock of the state of German unification a quarter of a century into the ongoing project that is the Berlin Republic. Thirteen scholars, artists, and public figures from diverse backgrounds document the changing hopes and fears, successes and challenges, that face the republic as it negotiates its way through the 21st century. Taking up a broad assessment of German culture ranging from sports to religion, painting to map-making, film to foreign policy, these studies combine personal experiences with critical analysis in order to understand the Berlin Republic today. The resulting portrait reveals a complex, diverse, and constantly-developing Republic that continues to ask the same essential question that has been at the center of discussions since the dramatic events that gave birth to the Republic: "Sind wir ein Volk?"

Author : Robert Boyers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : German literature
ISBN : WISC:89006643290

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The Legacy of the German Refugee Intellectuals by Robert Boyers Pdf