McBride, Patrizia C.
Legacies of Modernism
1. Introduction: The Future’s Past—Modernism, Critique, and the Political
Patrizia C. McBride
Section I. High, Low, and Other: The Politics of Music
2. Hans Pfitzner and the Anxiety of Nostalgic Modernism
Marc A. Weiner
3. Mahler, Rembrandt, and the Dark Side of German Culture
Carl Niekerk
Section II. Modernism/Antimodernism, Race and Eugenics in Scandinavia
4. The Resistance to Modernism in Karl Gjellerup’s
Paul Houe
5. Knut Hamsun’s “White Negro” from
Monika Žagar
6. Eugenic Sterilization and the Role of Science—The Scandinavian Case
Nils Roll-Hansen
Section III. Science, Technology, and German Modernism
7. Reactionary Engineers? Technocracy and the
Andreas Michel
8. Science, Art, and the Question of the Visible: Rudolf Virchow, Hannah Höch, and “Immediate Visual Perception”
Thomas O. Haakenson
Section IV. Architecture and Urban Planning in Weimar Modernity
9. Imagining the New Berlin: Modernism, Mass Utopia, and the Architectural Avant-Garde
Sabine Hake
10. Rebuilding Babel: Urban Regeneration in the Modern/Postmodern Age
Janet Ward
Section V. The Politics of Visual Culture: Weimar, Exile, and Postwar
11. Politicizing Painting: The Case of New Objectivity
Maria Makela
12. Modernism from Weimar to Hollywood: Expressionism/New Objectivity/Noir?
Richard W. McCormick
13. Clement Greenberg and the Postwar Modernist Canon: Minimizing the Role of Germany and Northern Europe
Matthew Rohn
Section VI. The Politics of Visual Culture in the Third Reich
14. Framing Sight: Modernism and Nazi Visual Culture
Lutz Koepnick
15. A Woman Beside Herself: Art and Its Other in Nazi Movies
Linda Schulte-Sasse
Section VII. Modernist Politics Now: Critiques of Liberalism
16. The Stakes of the Political According to Carl Schmitt
Chantal Mouffe
17. Sovereignty and Its Discontents
William Rasch
Keywords: Literature, European Literature, European History, Modern History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Regional and Cultural Studies
- Editor
- McBride, Patrizia C.
- McCormick, Richard W.
- Žagar, Monika
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Studies in European Culture and History
- Page amount
- 268 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230603189
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-53449-4