Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains / Todd Samuel Presner

Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G33 P67 2007

Series: Cultures of history
Cultures of history.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Presner, Todd Samuel.
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-346) and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents only

Physical Description: xi, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Contents: Dialectics at a standstill
Berlin and Delos : Celan's no-places and Heidegger's homecomings : philosophy and poetry out of material history
Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich station : German/Jewish subject without a nation : on the meta-epistemology of mobility and mass-migration
The North Sea : Jews on ships : or, how Heine's Reisebilder deconstruct Hegel's philosophy of world history
Nuremburg-Fürth-Palestine : some assembly required : global anxieties and corporeal fantasies of German/Jewish nationality
Auschwitz : "the fabrication of corpses" : Heidegger, Arendt, and the modernity of mass death
Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris : the railway ruins of modernity : Freud and Sebald on the narration of German/Jewish remains.
ISBN: 0231140126
9780231140126 (alk. paper)
0231511582 (ebook)
9780231511582 (ebook)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-346) and index.
Subjects: Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
Jews--Germany--Identity.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--Germany.
German literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
Technology--Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
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