Weimar Thought : : A Contested Legacy / / John P. McCormick, Peter E. Gordon.

During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading intellectuals, scholars, and critics--such as Hannah Arendt...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
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Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Weimar Thought: Continuity and Crisis / Gordon, Peter E. / McCormick, John P.
  • Part I. Law, Politics, Society
  • 1. Weimar Sociology / Kettler, David / Loader, Colin
  • 2. Weimar Psychology: Holistic Visions and Trained Intuition / Ash, Mitchell G.
  • 3. Legal Theory and the Weimar Crisis of Law and Social Change / McCormick, John P.
  • 4. The Legacy of Max Weber in Weimar Political and Social Theory / Villa, Dana
  • Part II. Philosophy, Theology, Science
  • 5. Kulturphilosophie in Weimar Modernism / Krois, John Michael
  • 6. Weimar Philosophy and the Fate of Neo-Kantianism / Beiser, Frederick
  • 7. Weimar Philosophy and the Crisis of Historical Thinking / Bambach, Charles
  • 8. Weimar Theology: From Historicism to Crisis / Gordon, Peter E.
  • 9. Method, Moment, and Crisis in Weimar Science / Carson, Cathryn
  • Part III. Aesthetics, Literature, Film
  • 10. Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar Criticism / Jennings, Michael W.
  • 11. Writers and Politics in the Weimar Republic / Gunnemann, Karin
  • 12. Aesthetic Fundamentalism in Weimar Poetry: Stefan George and his Circle, 1918-1933 / Ruehl, Martin A.
  • 13. Weimar Film Theory / Hake, Sabine
  • 14. The Politics of Art and Architecture at the Bauhaus, 1919-1933 / Maciuika, John V.
  • 15. Aby Warburg and the Secularization of the Image / Steinberg, Michael P.
  • Part IV. Themes of an Epoch
  • 16. Eastern Wisdom in an Era of Western Despair: Orientalism in 1920s Central Europe / Marchand, Suzanne
  • 17. Weimar Femininity: Within and Beyond the Law / Matysik, Tracie
  • 18. The Weimar Left: Theory and Practice / Jay, Martin
  • 19. The Aftermath: Reflections on the Culture and Ideology of National Socialism / Rabinbach, Anson
  • Weimar Thought: A Chronology
  • Contributors
  • Index