Gordon / McCormick Weimar Thought

A Contested Legacy
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4678-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

A comprehensive look at the intellectual and cultural innovations of the Weimar period

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, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, and Martin Heidegger—emerged during this time to become the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century. Even today, the Weimar era remains a vital resource for new intellectual movements. In this incomparable collection, Weimar Thought presents both the specialist and the general reader a comprehensive guide and unified portrait of the most important innovators, themes, and trends of this fascinating period.

The book is divided into four thematic sections: law, politics, and society; philosophy, theology, and science; aesthetics, literature, and film; and general cultural and social themes of the Weimar period. The volume brings together established and emerging scholars from a remarkable array of fields, and each individual essay serves as an overview for a particular discipline while offering distinctive critical engagement with relevant problems and debates.

Whether used as an introductory companion or advanced scholarly resource, Weimar Thought provides insight into the rich developments behind the intellectual foundations of modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Peter E.

McCormick, John P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Weimar Thought: Continuity and Crisis 1

Peter E. Gordon and John P. McCormick

Part I: Law, Politics, Society

1 Weimar Sociology 15

David Kettler and Colin Loader

2 Weimar Psychology: Holistic Visions and Trained Intuition 35

Mitchell G. Ash

3 Legal Theory and the Weimar Crisis of Law and Social Change 55

John P. McCormick

4 The Legacy of Max Weber in Weimar Political and Social Theory 73

Dana Villa

Part II: Philosophy, Theology, Science

5 Kulturphilosophie in Weimar Modernism 101

John Michael Krois

6 Weimar Philosophy and the Fate of Neo-Kantianism 115

Frederick Beiser

7 Weimar Philosophy and the Crisis of Historical Thinking 133

Charles Bambach

8 Weimar Theology: From Historicism to Crisis 150

Peter E. Gordon

9 Method, Moment, and Crisis in Weimar Science 179

Cathryn Carson

Part III: Aesthetics, Literature, Film

10 Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar Criticism 203

Michael Jennings

11 Writers and Politics in the Weimar Republic 220

Karin Gunnemann

12 Aesthetic Fundamentalism in Weimar Poetry: Stefan George and his Circle, 1918-1933 240

Martin A. Ruehl

13 Weimar Film Theory 273

Sabine Hake

14 The Politics of Art and Architecture at the Bauhaus, 1919-1933 291

John V. Maciuika

15 Aby Warburg and the Secularization of the Image 316

Michael P. Steinberg

Part IV: Themes of an Epoch

16 Eastern Wisdom in an Era of Western Despair: Orientalism in 1920s Central Europe 341

Susanne Marchand

17 Weimar Femininity: Within and Beyond the Law 361

Tracie Matysik

18 The Weimar Left: Theory and Practice 377

Martin Jay

19 The Aftermath: Reflections on the Culture and Ideology of National Socialism 394

Anson Rabinbach

Weimar Thought: A Chronology 407

Contributors 417

Index 423

Über Autor(innen)

Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University. His books include Continental Divide and Rosenzweig and Heidegger. John P. McCormick is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His books include Machiavellian Democracy and Weber, Habermas, and Transformations of the European State.