The Proletarian Dream : : Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany, 1863–1933 / / Sabine Hake.

The proletariat never existed—but it had a profound effect on modern German culture and society. As the most radicalized part of the industrial working class, the proletariat embodied the critique of capitalism and the promise of socialism. But as a collective imaginary, the proletariat also inspire...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies , 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 370 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Imperial Germany
  • Chapter 1. The Threat of the Proletariat and the Discourse of the Masses
  • Chapter 2. Proletarian Dreams: From Marx to Marxism
  • Chapter 3. Emotional Socialism and Sentimental Masculinity
  • Chapter 4. On Workers Singing in One Voice
  • Chapter 5. The Proletarian Prometheus and Socialist Allegory
  • Chapter 6. Ferdinand Lassalle, the First Socialist Celebrity
  • Chapter 7. Re/Writing Workers’ Emotions
  • Chapter 8. The Socialist Project of Culture and Education
  • Part Two: Weimar Republic
  • Chapter 9. Revolutionary Fantasy and Proletarian Masculinity
  • Chapter 10. The Revolutionary Fantasy Revisited
  • Chapter 11. Franz Wilhelm Seiwert’s Critical Empathy
  • Chapter 12. Social Democracy and the Performance of Community
  • Chapter 13. Taking a Stand: The Habitus of Agitprop
  • Chapter 14. Marxist Literary Theory and Communist Militant Culture
  • Chapter 15. The Emotional Education of the Proletarian Child
  • Chapter 16. Wilhelm Reich and the Politics of Proletarian Sexuality
  • Chapter 17. John Heartfield’s Productive Rage
  • Chapter 18. Kuhle Wampe and “Those Who Don’t Like It”
  • Afterword: A Historiography of the Proletarian Dream
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index