Presner Mobile Modernity

Germans, Jews, Trains
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-51158-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Cultures of History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Presner, Todd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Dialectics at a Standstill
2. Berlin and Delos
Celan's No-Places and Heidegger's Homecomings: Philosophy and Poetry Out of Material History
3.Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich Station
German/Jewish Subject Without a Nation: On the Meta-epistemology of Mobility and Mass Migration
4.The North Sea
Jews on Ships; or, How Heine's Reisebilder Deconstruct Hegel's Philosophy of World History
5.Nuremburg-Fürth-Palestine
Some Assembly Required: Global Anxieties and Corporeal Fantasies of German/Jewish Nationality
6.Auschwitz
"The Fabrication of Corpses": Heidegger, Arendt, and the Modernity of Mass Death
7.Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris
The Railway Ruins of Modernity: Freud and Sebald on the Narration of German/Jewish Remains
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Index

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Über Autor(innen)

Todd Samuel Presner is an associate professor of Germanic languages and Jewish studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the author of Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration. His recent articles have appeared in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, German Politics and Society, Telos, and Criticism, and he has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.