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'Modernity' has come to refer both to a contested historical category and to an even more contested philosophical and civilisational ideal. In this important collection of essays Robert Pippin takes issue with some prominent assessments of what is or is not philosophically at stake in the idea of a modern revolution in Western civilisation, and presents an alternative view. Professor Pippin disputes many traditional characterisations of the distinctiveness of modern philosophy. In their place he defends claims about agency, freedom, ethical life and modernity itself, all of which are central to the German idealist philosophical tradition, and in particular, to the writings of Hegel. Having considered the Hegelian version of these issues the author explores other accounts as found in Habermas, Strauss, Blumenberg, Nietzsche, and Heidegger

Introduction / Augustine Agwuele -- Part 1. Modernism-modernity: socio-cultural transformation: Between delayed modernity and deferred democracy: Africa's troubled take-off / Ali A. Mazrui -- A critique of Cornel West's "Race and modernity" / Hetty ter Haar -- Chieftaincy, collective interests and the Dagomba new elite / Deborah Pellow -- Murid identity and Wolof Ajami literature in Senegal / Fallou Ngom -- From village-square to internet-square: language and culture at the Usa-Africa dialogue series / Augustine Agwuele -- Elaloro: a didactic approach to Yoruba education / Michael O. Afoláyan -- Part 2. Modernism-modernity: arts, media and religion: The old chestnut of African cultural production: insiders and outsiders / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Strategic collaborations between Nigerians and Germans: the making of a Yorùbá culture movement / Debra Klein -- Interrogating the Africana artist: interviews, penetration, and Muholic occupation / Moyosore Okediji -- Re-imagining West African women's sexuality: Bekolo's Les saignantes and the Mevoungou / Naminata Diabate -- Matangazo ya biashara na jinsia: gender stereotypes and advertisements in Kenya / Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi -- From Kamiirithu to xyz: between cultural "flaws" and democratic change in independent Kenya / Hannington Ochwada -- African Christianity: its scope in global context / Caleb Oladipo -- Women and Islam in urban Burkina Faso: piety between definitions and interpretation / Liza Debevec -- Part 3. Development: economic and political transformation: Globalization and the governance of foreign direct investment in Africa / Roshen Hendrickson -- The Fulani land/settlement question in British Southern Cameroon, 1916-1960 / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- Imminent colonialism: violence on Lutheran mission stations and the ending of the pre-colonial Zulu State / Kirsten Rüther -- Colonialism and cultural change in Africa / Julius O. Adekunle -- Reengineering social institutions for peace and development: the case of post-genocide Rwanda / Wanjala S. Nasong'o

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Modern German Culture in a Life Crisis -- Chapter 1. Helmuth Plessner's Eccentric Human among the Disciplines -- Chapter 2. Photography's Natural Histories in the Weimar Republic -- Chapter 3. Döblin's Epic Embodied -- Chapter 4. Organic Modernization: Wholeness and Development in Ernst Jünger's The Worker -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

An interdisciplinary account of the political importance of music in modernist literature A new methodology for analysing music in literature, informed by T. W. Adorno, that examines the politics of aesthetics An intensely interdisciplinary book, with an extensive survey and analysis of music's place in Ancient Greek philosophy, German Romanticism, French Symbolism, British Aestheticism, continental philosophy, as well as new musicology, sociology, and analytical philosophy Conceptual re-framing of modernism as an investigation of the problems associated with post-Enlightenment rationality, logic and empiricism Nuanced arguments about the politics of aesthetics and the real-world significance of literary and musical forms Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like musical and literary forms. Re-assessing music in James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Sylvia Townsend Warner, this book re-shapes temporal, aesthetic and political understandings of modernism, by arguing that music plays a crucial role in ongoing attempts to investigate language, rational thought and ideology using aesthetic forms.

The "total work of art," from the German Gesamtkunstwerk, is associated with Wagner's desire for artworks to unify the various modes of artistic expression and form an integral part of the cultural and political life of a community. This conception of art was inspired by Greek drama, which brought together dance, music and poetry, and which seemed to later romantic and post-romantic artists and thinkers to have emerged organically in a manner that would suggest there was no strict demarcation between life and art. This much is commonly known, but there is a surprising dearth of scholarship devoted to exploring the idea of the total work of art more deeply. ; peer-reviewed

Crime, detection, and German modernism -- Writing criminals : Outsiders of society and the modernist case history -- Understanding criminals : the cases of Ella Klein and Franz Biberkopf -- Seeing criminals : mass murder, mass culture, mass public -- Tracking criminals : the cases of Peter Kürten, Franz Bekert, and Emil Tischbein -- Conclusion: Criminalistic fantasy after Weimar

"After World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and '20s. As Modernism as Memory illustrates, these postwar practices undergird the approaches later taken in influential structures created or renovated in Berlin following the fall of the Wall, including the Jewish Museum and the Reichstag, the New Museum and the Topography of Terror. While others have characterized contemporary Berlin's museums and memorials as postmodern, Kathleen James-Chakraborty argues that these environments are examples of an "architecture of modern memory" that is much older, more complex, and historically contingent. She reveals that churches and museums repaired and designed before 1989 in Duren, Hanover, Munich, Neviges, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, and Weil am Rhein contributed to a modernist precedent for the relationship between German identity and the past developed since then in the Ruhr region and in Berlin. Modernism as Memory demonstrates that how one remembers can be detached from what one remembers, contrasting ruins with recollections of modernism to commemorate German suffering, the Holocaust, and the industrial revolution, as well as new spaces for Islam in the country"--

In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity

This book examines the discourse on 'primitive thinking' in early 20th century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and – most centrally – literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn and Robert Müller, focusing on three figures of alterity prominent in European primitivism: indigenous cultures, children, and the mentally ill.

Origins of modern Germany / Robert von Friedeburg -- Senses of place / Celia Applegate -- Women and men : 1760-1960 / Ann Goldberg -- International conflict, war, and the making of modern Germany, 1740-1815 / Ute Planert -- Cosmopolitanism and the German enlightenment / Franz Leander Fillafer and Jürgen Osterhammel -- The Atlantic revolutions in the German lands, 1776-1849 / Jonathan Sperber -- The end of the economic old order : the great transition, 1750-1860 / James M. Brophy -- Escaping Malthus : population explosion and human movement, 1760-1884 / Ernest Benz -- Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, 1760-1871 : enlightenment, emancipation, new forms of piety / George S. Williamson -- The formation of German nationalism, 1740-1850 / Christian Jansen -- German literature and thought from 1810-1890 / Ritchie Robertson -- Nation state, conflict resolution, and culture war, 1850-1878 / Siegfried Weichlein -- Authoritarian state, dynamic society, failed imperialist power, 1878-1914 / Helmut Walser Smith -- The great transformation : German economy and society, 1850-1914 / Cornelius Torp -- Race and world politics : Germany in the age of imperialism, 1878-1914 / Andrew Zimmerman -- Germany 1914-1918 : total war as a catalyst of change / Benjamin Ziemann -- The German national economy in an era of crisis and war, 1917-1945 / Adam Tooze -- Dictatorship and democracy, 1918-1939 / Thomas Mergel -- Piety, power, and powerlessness : religion and religious groups in Germany, 1870-1945 / Rebekka Habermas -- The place of German modernism / Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner -- Nationalism in the era of the nation state, 1870-1945 / Pieter M. Judson -- Todesraum : war, peace, and the experience of mass death, 1914-1945 / Thomas Kühne -- The three horseman of the Holocaust : anti-Semitism, East European empire, Aryan folk community / William W. Hagen -- On the move : mobility, migration, and nation, 1880-1948 / Sebastian Conrad and Philipp Ther -- Germany is no more : defeat, occupation, and the postwar oder / Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann -- Democracy and dictatorship in the Cold War : the two Germanies, 1949-1961 / Andrew I. Port -- Generations : the "revolutions" of the 1960s / Uta G. Poiger -- Industrialization, mass consumption, post-industrial society / Donna Harsch -- Religion and the search for meaning, 1945-1990 / Benjamin Ziemann -- Culture in the shadow of trauma? / Lutz Koepnick -- The two German states in the international world / Andreas W. Daum -- Annus mirabilis : 1989 and German unification / David F. Patton -- Germany and European integration since 1945 / Kiran Klaus Patel -- Toward A multicultural society? / William A. Barbieri, Jr

Athletics, body imagery and spectacle : Greco-Roman practices, discourses and ideologies -- The politics of representation : English sport as an object and project of modernity -- "Staging" (capitalist/colonial) modernity : international exhibitions and Olympics -- German modernism, anti-modernism and the critical theory of sport -- A savage sorting of "winners" and "losers" : modernization, development, sport, and the challenge of slums