Suchergebnisse

Introduction: Weimar modernism -- Ernst Bloch's theory of nonsimultaneity -- Berlin Dada, Carl Schmitt, Georg Lukács, and the critique of contemplation -- From contemplation to distraction : the culture of inflation and the inflation of culture -- The art of disappearance : Adorno's aesthetics of modernism and Alban Berg's music -- From distraction to mobilization : Ernst Jünger, photography, and the imperial gaze of the worker -- From mobilization to interruption : dialectic at a standstill or Walter Benjamin on the politicization of the aesthetic in Brecht's epic theater

On the eve, 1914-39 -- The local elite and the German authorities, 1939-44 -- The Polish majority under Nazi rule, 1939-44 -- Ethnic minorities under Nazi rule, 1939-44 -- The independentists and their enemies, 1939-47 -- The local elite under Soviet occupation, 1944-47 -- The Polish majority under Soviet occupation, 1944-47 -- Ethnic minorities under Soviet occupation, 1944-47 -- Accomodation and resistance

This book tackles an obvious yet profound problem of modern political life: the disorientation of intellectuals and activists on the left. As the study of political history and theory has been usurped by cultural criticism, a confusion over the origins