Individuality and Modernity in Berlin - Self and Society From Weimar to the Wall

Informationen zum Autor Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. His previous publications include Die Verteidigung der bürgerlichen Nation: Industrielle und hohe Beamte in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1900–1930 (2002). Klappentext Moritz Föllmer offers a pioneering analysis of individuality and its importance to metropolitan society in twentieth-century Berlin. Zusammenfassung Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to August 1961. This is a pioneering analysis of individuality in a twentieth-century context that will engage, among others, students and academics interested in the German metropolis as well as in European urban history more broadly. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Weimar Berlin: 1. Risk, isolation and unstable selfhood; 2. Flexibility, authenticity and consumption; 3. Reform, scandal and extremism; Part II. Nazi Berlin: 4. Redefining legitimate individuality; 5. Jewish Berliners' ambiguous quest for agency; 6. Heroism, withdrawal and privatist loyalty; Part III. Post-War and Cold-War Berlin: 7. Defeat, self-help and the dissociation from Nazism; 8. Socialist ambitions and individualist expectations; 9. Anti-totalitarianism, domesticity and ambivalent modernity; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Moritz F. Llmer, Moritz Feollmer, Moritz Follmer, Moritz Föllmer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2013
• EAN: 9781107030985
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03098-5
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History, History of Ideas, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999